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House of Flying Daggers: A Reappraisal
Unlike Hero – to which it was inevitably compared – Zhang Yimou's follow up film should be considered more as an “intimate drama” about love
2046: A Matter of Time, A Labour of Love
An analysis of the themes of time and memory in Wong Kar-waiís 2046, and how the film forms a trilogy of sorts with In the
Some Notes on “Political Cinema” Prompted by Seeing Raoul Peck’s Sometimes in April in Competition at the Berlin Film Festival
A personal reflection written in the heat of the moment soon after the film's screening at the recent Berlin Film Festival
The Magic of Risking Everything For a Dream Nobody Sees: Million Dollar Baby: The Shadow Film
A unique interpretation of Clint Eastwood's much-praised film that counters much of the more straightforward readings of the film as a humanist melodrama.