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Two directors from different parts of the world, with very different outputs and reputations, absorbed and re-interpreted the culture of their respective countries in contrasting but not entirely dissimilar ways While director Jean-Pierre Melville was French, very sophisticated and, at least eventually, respected by cinephiles the world over, English-born Australian
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In this French film, the pragmatic choice to leave one’s home when it is under attack feels anything but rational Tearjerkers, as the crude word suggests, tend to be movies that tug at your heartstrings so forcefully that pure sadness overwhelms you. After the credits roll, however, you can
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Artwork by Neven Udovičić When writing criticism, finding the right words is part of the fun: investigating one’s feelings about a film to try and figure out what is really happening, what it is really doing, is incredibly satisfying, for both writers and then, hopefully, for the readers too.
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Right now in Paris, hundreds of cinephiles are occupying a cinema to try and save the building from being sold to the highest bidder. Since being put on the market by its owner in 2018, the cinema La Clef in the Quartier Latin of the French capital has been occupied
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Martin Scorsese's film presents a model of woman- and motherhood as tender as it is strong Only the fourth of Martin Scorsese’s dozens of feature-length narrative films, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore has become somewhat overshadowed in his catalogue simply due to the stature of the
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With Andrzej Żuławski's film enjoying renewed popularity in 2021, Daniel Bird sets the record straight on the history of the film's way to screens big and small On November 1, 2021 the critic/programmer Forrest Cardamenis tweeted the following: No judgment here, but it’s really
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A selection of films at the 2021 Frames of Representation film festival in London offer fascinating avenues for documentary cinema As documentaries (or, rather, certain kinds of documentaries) have entered the mainstream in a big way in recent years, so has the basic and self-evident “problem” of documentary’s supposed
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A Croatian animated film reminds us of some of the things cinema can and routinely used to do When was the last time a striking visual composition quietly broke your mind, suggested new horizons, new images, new forms? For me, it was just yesterday — watching a film made 71 years
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And so we have reached the 6th issue of Animus. The road to this moment has not been without difficulty, but the effort has always felt worthwhile, and the need to find ways to sort through the cinema of today has never felt more urgent. Though this issue includes five
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A still from To The Moon (2021) I may be writing this essay at the tail end of 2021, but it already feels wrong to voluntarily think back on the year that has just passed. As Michael Sicinski puts it in his essay for Mubi Notebook, there do not seem
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Merry Christmas to all who celebrate! To end the year on a positive note, Animus editor Elena Lazic asked the writers from the magazine's first five issues to each briefly write about one of their most memorable and powerful film experiences of the year, whether it was with
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Director Peter Macdonald and executive assistant Madelyn Most discuss one of the best and most forgotten of JCVD's films There’s simply nothing expected about Legionnaire. It’s not directed by an ‘auteur’, but by Peter MacDonald, an industry veteran known predominantly for his work as a second-unit