Silent Running
The future. Earth is defoliated, the last remaining plant life confined to geodesic domes floating in deep space.
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Harakiri
What Kobayashi is opposed to, and very strongly, is the whole samurai tradition, and its continuing celebration in Japanese cinema.
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Troll Hunter
The trolls themselves are rather splendid: their design is unapologetically comical, with phallic noses and Highland cow fur for the Mountain Kings.
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Mirror
In Mirror there’s always something happening, and it’s usually surprising and strange.
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The New York Ripper
I’m glad Fulci became a filmmaker rather than pursuing a career in medicine: his keen interest in human suffering and mutilation would seem ill-suited for healthcare.
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Cross of Iron
‘God is a sadist… but he probably doesn’t even know it.’
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Morgiana
The aspect of the film that first hits is the disturbing, crazy-house visuals, a combination of fisheye lurch and decadent, Klimt-inspired design, with psychedelic colour experiments and shots taken from the point of view of a Siamese cat.
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Compulsion
The Big Important Lawyer is making his final speech. Around him, the court officials and the people in the public gallery sit, their eyes closed, like dreamers.
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Paranoiac
Since Francis the director was as sure a hand as Francis the cinematographer at creating atmosphere through lighting, composition and movement, this convoluted country house crime story is rich material.
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Van Diemen’s Land
Jonathan auf der Heide’s gritty, gristly drama Van Diemen’s Land follows the travails of a group of escaped convicts in the remotest area of Australia in 1822.
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