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The Wings of Desire (1987)

By anewnadir | Published: 4 January 2010
Wim Wenders won (whew) Best Director at Cannes for this epic of peace starring Bruno Ganz as a slightly-more-than-ambivalent angel and Solveig Dommartin as the hottest French-Algerian this side of Zinedine Zidane. Not much for plot in this one folks, so we’ll cut straight to the analysis. Ganz and Otto Sander play Damiel and Cassiel, two [...]
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on David Fincher

By walker | Published: 19 July 2009
I watched The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last night. David Fincher’s 2008 Best Picture-nominated biopic of the fictional Fitzgerald character leaves a lasting impression, as do most of his other films. Fincher, for all his failings as a mainstream director who attempted to bring the art house to the masses, does seem to be [...]
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transformers: revenge of the fallen

By anewnadir | Published: 30 June 2009
Francis Bacon declared that the Egyptian pyramids were the highest achievement of Western art. He was right: no other work of art so successfully conveys a culture’s obsession with death, its desire to be known throughout history. The pyramids evoke man’s epic battle against entropy: against waste, old age and eventual obscurity. Michael Bay’s Transformers: [...]
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