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Fantastic Fest (7 posts found)
Fantastic Fest Review: “The Club”
When great filmmakers tackle religion, they do not just talk about God – they show God in their visual schema. Witness Scorsese’s tortured characters warping their bodies into the shape of a crucifix, or the camera-eye of Malick constantly looking up in awe at...
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Fantastic Fest Review: “The Witch”
Forms of storytelling never really die – the functions they serve simply migrate and reappear somewhere else. The folk tale is one such manner of expression that seems rather obsolete in the modern world, not yielding any overtly major works in the past two ce...
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Fantastic Fest Review: “Green Room”
Jeremy Saulnier’s breakout film Blue Ruin depicted violence as an elemental force; a practically innate disposition of the human condition. In that spin on a classic revenge tale, Saulnier metes out precious little information on the characters hell-bent on de...
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Fantastic Fest Review: “It Follows”
After The Guest and Cub, I think I may be ready to never see another 70s/80s horror or thriller throwback film ever. No more synth scores, no more story-free villains, no more films that amount to empty homage. Between Cub’s complete lack of tension and story ...
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Fantastic Fest Review: “The Duke of Burgundy”
Isn’t it rather adorable how many self-proclaimed “men’s rights activists” go on about how women are trying to create a society without men at all, as if men were really needed for anything in the first place? It’s almost as if Peter Strickland, director of Be...
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Fantastic Fest Review: “No Man’s Land”
Ning Hao has had a rough time lately. After debuting his previous film, Crazy Racer, the Chinese director went on to make a film about a criminal defense lawyer stuck in the desert of China after winning a case for a falcon poacher. The film was rejected by th...
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Fantastic Fest Review: “Cub”
After an impressive reception at TIFF, Jonas Govaerts’ Cub landed at Fantastic Fest with great anticipation, with a premise that most would think would be obvious to try, but has been done seldom. A boy scout troop goes on a camping trip, and finds themselves ...
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