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Quotes of better days

The only thing worse than being incompetent,
or being unkind or being evil, is being indecisive.

Thoroughbreds (2017)

Poetry doesn’t belong to those who write.
It belongs to those who need it.

Il Postino (1994)

It’s like, when you don’t know someone, they’re more interesting.
They can be anything you want them to be.

Sing Street (2016)

We crave the mistery
because there is none left.

Under the Silver Lake (2018)

This must be the station they told me about, with the funny name.
Not the station where the train stopped, but the station where the station stopped.

Der Himmel über Berlin (1987)

Week In, Week Out

Movies of the Week #12 (2023)

24 Mar 202324 Mar 2023
The Tied Up Balloon (1967): There have been many balloon-related headlines recently, so why not check out a balloon-themed movie? This little allegorical piece by Binka Zhelyazkova takes us to…
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Review: Spre Nord (2022)

22 Mar 2023
To the North is Marius Mincan's debut non-documentary feature, an age old tale of men dreaming of a better life - only to be squashed by other men dreaming of…
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Movies of the Week #11 (2023)

17 Mar 2023
Decision to Leave (2022): IMDb says this is a "crime, drama, mystery" movie. Seriously, no romance? It basically portrays all my romantic conceits in a narratively enticing and visually enrapturing…
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Review: Disco Boy (2023)

15 Mar 202322 Mar 2023
I was in Italy recently and wanted to see Disco Boy on its opening weekend. I'd missed the Silver Bear winner for cinematography when it was screened at the Berlinale…
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Movies of the Week #10 (2023)

8 Mar 202310 Mar 2023
Aftersun (2022): This father-daughter holiday is a throwback to the days of Macarena and Dr. Jones, of flimsy arcades and dodgy lodgings in foreign lands and, unfortunately, of underlying trauma.…
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Aftersun (2022): An Afterthought

8 Mar 20238 Mar 2023
I was complaining that we don't get flashy premieres for interesting movies a while back. Well, when I went to see Aftersun at the so called preview screening a couple…
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Movies of the Week #9 (2023)

3 Mar 20233 Mar 2023
This week, Berlinale recap! Here (2023): At just 82 minutes, the movie is strikingly short. Especially if you get into its mood, it will lull you before you even realize…
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Berlinale Review: Here (2023)

3 Mar 2023
The melting pot that is present day Europe should be an inspiration for more uplifting stories about the things that bind us as people. I would be hard pressed to…
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Berlinale Review: Passages (2023)

1 Mar 20231 Mar 2023
Ira Sachs wasn't a director I had firmly positioned in my mind, even though I'd seen and liked a couple of his previous movies: Love is Strange (2014) and Little…
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Berlinale Review: Sages-Femmes (2023)

27 Feb 202327 Feb 2023
The genre of medical movies is mostly populated with the struggles and romantic explorations of doctors and nurses, the two swathes of people we associate with it. Sages-femmes narrows that…
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Movies of the Week #8 (2023)

24 Feb 2023
Close (2022): One of this year's contenders for Best International Picture at the Oscars, Lukas Dhont's testament to childhood friendships and their frailty is heartwarming and heartbreaking at the same…
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Berlinale Review: Între Revoluţii (2023)

23 Feb 202323 Feb 2023
As the title denotes, this movie by Vlad Petri is set between two revolutions - the one in Iran in 1979 and the one in Romania ten years later. Our…

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