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29 Jun 5ª Mostra de Cine Periférico

(S8) Peripheral Film Festival celebrates its 5th edition with a special programme over Japanese cinema from its origins until today as part of the activities of the Spain – Japan Dual Year Katsuben – Benshi: ‘Narrators of Silence’, the Japanese silent cinema old tradition will be...

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17 Jun SPANISH CINEMA WITHOUT FEAR

Rafa Ayuso y Virginia Pablos Recientemente se han dado a conocer los premios Goya. Como es habitual, y no por demérito de las películas aunque aquí cabría el debate, nombres habituales copan las nominaciones/premios: Trueba, Querejeta, de la Iglesia, Sánchez Arévalo más las raciones de noveles/sorpresas...

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15 Jun LOS ILUSOS

Dir Jonás Trueba Review by Jack Wormell YOU ARE IN A ROOM WATCHING A FILM. THAT IS ALL. Los Ilusos trailer The cutting room floor.  Celluloid detritus repurposed as cinema fetishism.  Black and white off cuts.  Sound pick-ups.  Flash frames.  Boom in shot.  Discussion behind camera. This strange, self-reflexive, black and...

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13 Jun THE COSMONAUT

Dir Nicolás Alcalá Review by Jack Wormell The Cosmonaut trailer The Cosmonaut plays out a classic love triangle against the backdrop of the Russian space program of the 1950s.  Chopped up and playing with chronological order, the film takes a dream-like approach to storytelling, as if the film...

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11 Jun MAPA

Review by Jack Wormell Film allows for scrutiny, the ultimate scrutiny; with film (or video) the maker can experience the moment, watch the moment later on, watch again (and again and again) and then change it, construe a different reality – and reflect on the original...

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09 Jun Born Naked-Mad-Lond-Ber

Dir: Andread Esteban Review by Jack Worme A while ago I had a debate with a friend of mine about the term ‘sex’ and whether or not I thought the way she, as a lesbian, defined sex was the way I, as a straight man, defined sex....

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07 Jun 4ª Mostra de Cine Periférico

DVD is made of rust, film of silver (S8) Peripheral Film Festival (A Coruña, Spain) reaches the fourth edition of an amazing adventure which defends the small gauge film preservation. The (S8) Peripheral Film Festival A Coruña reaches its fourth edition, establishing itself as a unique event...

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03 Jun You Can’t Stop Being Human

A review of ‘The Plague’ by Jack Wormell Some summers ago I was stuck in an interminable traffic jam going from the French Pyrenees into Spain to board a plane back to London.  The grating slowness of this particular jam (we were stuck on that road...

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