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Tag Archives: 1990s

CHRIS: Pump Up The Volume (Moyle, US, Canada, 1990)

08/05/2014by Dirk 5 Comments

Do you ever get the feeling that everything in America is completely fucked? In the late eighties there was a great deal of nostalgia for the sixties. There was something […]

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CHRIS: Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run) (Tykwer, Germany, 1998)

30/03/2014by Dirk 9 Comments

Survey my record collection and you’ll find The Ramones sitting alongside Yes. So it is with films too. For every STALKER (1979), which is like a triple album gatefold of […]

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CHRIS: True Romance (Scott, US, 1993)

14/02/2014by Dirk 7 Comments

” When my friends from that time see TRUE ROMANCE, they get melancholy; it brings back a certain time for us. It was weird when I first saw the movie […]

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Dirk’s Five – High Faces

02/06/2013by Dirk Leave a comment

Dom-Dirk expressed surprise at the selection of TRAFFIC for my list. It was a conversation by text (its the only sober form of conversation that we have, and even that […]

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CHRIS: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Bahr, Hickenlooper, 1991, US)

30/01/2012by Dirk 7 Comments

To me, the great hope is that now these little 8mm video recorders and stuff have come out, and some… just people who normally wouldn’t make movies are going to […]

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CHRIS: The Ice Storm (Lee, US, 1997)

20/06/2011by Dirk Leave a comment

“Dear Lord, thank you for this Thanksgiving holiday. And for all the material possessions we have and enjoy. And for letting us white people kill all the Indians and steal […]

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DOM: Breaking the Waves (Von Trier, Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands, 1996)

07/03/2011by Dirk 1 Comment

When I first started watching films in the late 80s and early 90s, as I have said before Halliwell’s Film Guide led me through the maze of films from the […]

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CHRIS: Hoop Dreams (James, 1994, US)

08/02/2011by Dirk Leave a comment

“What’s so fascinating about standing around watching a group of pituitary cases?” Annie Hall (1977) This film will always be associated with shame for me. Christmas Eve 1998, I got […]

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CHRIS: Toy Story 2 (Lassester,Unkrich, Brannon, US, 1999)

09/01/2011by Dirk 6 Comments

The TOY STORY trilogy is probably the most successful trilogy in film history. Successful in the sense of its financial results at the box office and toy shops, but also […]

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CHRIS: Unforgiven (Eastwood, US, 1992)

16/12/2010by Dirk 2 Comments

“Deserve doesn’t come into it.” The best westerns are myths that tell a story about the time that they were written. The certainties that were present in the genre during […]

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