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Tag Archives: Cannes Film Festival

Starburst Memories: Blitz – Review of the Eighties

30/04/2013by Dirk 1 Comment

You may have missed the news, but last month Saint Margaret Hilda Thatcher passed away and it would be remiss of us to allow this event to go un-noticed. She […]

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DOM: Queen Christina (Mamoulian, US, 1933)

23/08/2012by Dirk Leave a comment

“I have been memorising this room, in the future, in my memory; I shall live a great deal in this room” Christina (Greta Garbo) after falling in love with the […]

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DOM: L’Avventura (Antonioni, Italy, France, 1960)

15/01/2012by Dirk 4 Comments

L’Avventura (ITY/FRA1960, Michelangelo Antonioni) . When originally shown at the Cannes Film Festival it was booed by some critics, but after a second screening, it took the Grand Jury Prize […]

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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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