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MIFF 2015: The Witch / Film Reviews / The Essential
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By Simon Di Berardino. Branded with the subtitle “A New England Folktale” and stated as being based upon actual journals and records from the 17th century,. Is the debut feature from Robert Eggers. It’s a slow burn of a fable, its camera lying nestled within an exiled family being torn apart by the cruel visitations of a witch that lives in the forest behind their farm. Mainly focusing on the luminous eldest daughter Thomasin (Anya Taylor-Joy) and her puritanical father William (Ralph Ineson),. The thing...
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Future - Dirty Sprite 2 / Music Reviews / The Essential
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Future’s descent into the darkness. I stared into her eyes. Darkness was falling around us as the night creatures begun their routine serenade to the moon. She sat patiently with a cold expression. I’m guessing she knew this was coming. Sandpaper was suffocating my esophagus. My heart was racing and the sweat was sparkling on my palms. I shuffled in my spot on the foot of her bed and she sat upright, arching her back against the wall. Her eyes glowed neon blue. A breakup is an ugly thing. I’ve ...Can be ...
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David Brent shoots for stardom in. Life on the Road. Retribution in the wilderness: Leonardo DiCaprio in. From What Is Before. The revolution will be sanitised:. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2. 22, A Million. Lil Ugly Mane -. No techno : Björk comes alive with the organic. Oh, man that's fucked : director Matt Richards on his MIFF short. The Disappearance of Willie Bingham. Tim Rogers and The Twin Set -. What Rhymes With Cars and Girls. The Essential Film Podcast. The Essential Music Podcast.
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Mac DeMarco - Another One / Music Reviews / The Essential
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Open and shut: Mac DeMarco’s. Stephen Malkmus kept his address to himself. But in an era of oversharing, perceptive indie weirdos have no more privacy reservations than the rest of us do. Mac DeMarco’s level of fame is manageable enough to allow for some transparency, and he’s reasoned that discovering his place of residence requires listening all the way through. It’s a pity this only takes 23 minutes, because DeMarco has reached a creative level occupied by few of his peers. For the second release in s...
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HEALTH - Death Magic / Music Reviews / The Essential
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HEALTH search for new ground on. The Loudness Wars are over. One of the last over the trenches were L.A. band HEALTH, though their contributions to the victorious effort – measured in the maximalism of modern pop music – were overshadowed by the final wave of reinforcements. In the wake of the searing synths of their compatriots Crystal Castles, the drum-machine mania of Sleigh Bells’ hyper-pop or Metallica’s much-maligned. That rawness goes some way towards explaining the existence of. View on Last....
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MIFF 2015: The End of the Tour / Film Reviews / The Essential
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The End of the Tour. The first cinematic portrait of literary icon David Foster Wallace goes to great lengths to avoid being overly ambitious. The End of the Tour. Adapts David Lipsky’s. Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself. A 2010 book salvaged from an aborted. Profile covering the 1996 press tour for the release of Wallace’s. Abandoning any of the possibilities this level of adaptation-within-adaptation allows,. The End of the Tour. In 2008, Wallace commits suicide. The End of the Tour.
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MIFF 2015: Corn Island / Film Reviews / The Essential
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A farmer observes the soil on an island. He holds it and caresses it, lifts it up to his nose and smells it, he even tastes it, allowing the dirt and grit to roll around on his lips and tongue. The land rules here. The island is a tiny oval, no more than twenty meters at its widest, floating quietly between the borders of Georgia and Abkhazia. This is an area presently in political conflict and many ancient rituals of survival remain intact. Reminds me much of. All is Lost,. Ovashvili also utilises the g...
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MIFF 2015: The Lobster / Film Reviews / The Essential
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By Simon Di Berardino. Yorgos Lanthimos, the Greek-born film director, is interested in social politics, sexual codes and systematic repression imposed upon individuals. It’s in his breakout film. In which a handful of children are trapped within the confines of their property’s walls for their entire life and force fed a peculiar version of reality. It’s in his Golden Lion-nominated. And it’s definitely in his newest, English-language film. Maintains some fairly strict visual references to. Throughout, ...
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MIFF 2015: Heaven Knows What / Film Reviews / The Essential
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The line between fact and fiction is often buried in biographical cinema, but it’s always there. This can lead to great art — one quick “Based on a True Story” and we’re on our way — but it’s the truly ambitious filmmaker who gladly rides this line. Sometimes the experiment alone is worth it, but occasionally this self-reflexivity results in something truly great. With. Far from the first gritty love and drugs story,. In New York’s Diamond District, met Arielle and, upon hearing her story, commissi...
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