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I’m Still Here
(Ainda Estou Aqui)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date February 21 2025
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(Ainda Estou Aqui)
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Director – Walter Salles – 2024 – Brazil – Cert. 15 – 137m **** When a family man is disappeared by Brazil’s military dictatorship, his wife must fight for justice while raising their family of five children alone – out in UK cinemas on Friday, February 21st 1971. The middle of Brazil’s 1964-85 military dictatorship. […]

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Catching Fire:
The Story of
Anita Pallenberg

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date May 17 2024
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The Story of
Anita Pallenberg
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Directors – Alexis Bloom, Svetlana Zill – 2023 – US – Cert. 15 – 113m ***1/2 The chaotic life of the archetypal rock chick, told through her own words and those of her children – out in UK cinemas on Friday, May 17th After her death in 2017, Anita Pallenberg’s two surviving children Marlon and […]

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Crazy Thunder Road
(Kuruizaki
Sanda Rodo,
狂い咲きサンダーロード)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 10 2022
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(Kuruizaki
Sanda Rodo,
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Director – Sogo Ishii – 1980 – Japan – Cert. 15 – 97m ***** Following on from Arrow’s superb BD of Sogo Ishii’s Burst City (1982) comes Third Window’s equally impressive BD release of its predecessor in the Ishii canon Crazy Thunder Road (1980) – on Blu-ray from Monday, February 21st 2022 and, as of […]

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The Fabelmans

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date January 27 2023
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Director – Steven Spielberg – 2022 – US – Cert. 12a – 151m ***** The life and times of a young boy and amateur US movie maker whose extended family harbours an unexpected secret – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 27th Throughout his career, Spielberg has continued to surprise. He’s made big blockbusters […]

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Burst City
(Bakuretsu Toshi
Burst City,
爆裂都市
BURST CITY)

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Post date June 12 2022
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(Bakuretsu Toshi
Burst City,
爆裂都市
BURST CITY)
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Director – Sogo Ishii – 1982 – Japan – Cert. 18 – 115m Film **** Cultural significance ***** Arguably the lynchpin film that brought Japanese cinema back from the brink of extinction in the early 1980s and paved the way for much of what was to follow – on Blu-ray from Monday, November 20th 2020 […]

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