Kerry Chambers
Recommends: Top 15 Leslie Cheung Performances
‘I used to think there was a kind of bird that, once born, would keep flying until death. The fact is that the bird hasn't gone anywhere....
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Kerry Chambers
- Jul 31, 2022
- 12 min
Recommends: Top 10 Films by Tsai Ming-liang
A neon dreamscape; a lonely meander through the cities, bodies meeting bodies, missing one another in a breath. Tsai Ming-liang has...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jun 27, 2022
- 10 min
Recommends: Top 5 Films of Toshiaki Toyoda
How does one start a discussion about one of Japanese Cinema’s most underrated filmmakers? By stating just how underrated he is. That is...
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Kerry Chambers
- Apr 29, 2022
- 11 min
Recommends: Top 10 James Spader Performances
That drawl, that stillness, that gaze. He is a fascinating watch, is that James Spader. Sometimes he seems like an entity trying to...
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Kerry Chambers
- Mar 27, 2022
- 19 min
Recommends: Top 15 Complex Mother/Daughter Relationships on Screen
Happy Mother’s day and all that jazz! What better way to commemorate the day than exploring some of the most complex mother daughter...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jan 26, 2022
- 18 min
Recommends: Top 10 Neil Jordan Films
Ha Ha Ha! And here I thought I would be gushing full of words after the last article. Alas, I was emaciated of words, as much as the...
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Kerry Chambers
- Nov 30, 2021
- 20 min
Recommends: 13 Anime That I Couldn’t Forget…
“If it’s possible for one person to be hurt by another, then it’s possible for that person to be healed by another.” – Hatori Sohma I'm...
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Kerry Chambers
- Sep 10, 2021
- 26 min
Recommends: Top 50 Japanese Films (PART 3)
The last stretch is upon me and I realised before that I got a little carried away, a little overexcited by the promise of some of the...
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Kerry Chambers
- Aug 20, 2021
- 24 min
Recommends: Top 50 Japanese Films (PART 2)
Here we go again: into part two. I don’t expect everything I have to offer will be to everyone’s taste, but when I thought about what I...
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Kerry Chambers
- Aug 12, 2021
- 17 min
Recommends: Top 50 Japanese Films (PART 1)
It has been a year. Ahh, to think how naïve I was when first assembling a list of top Japanese films. Fifteen was all I managed. FIFTEEN?...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jul 13, 2021
- 16 min
Recommends: Top 15 Ingmar Bergman Films
It’s time. How long I have revelled in pondersome procrastination as I tried to conjure up a new article. Yet here it was, standing right...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jun 17, 2021
- 17 min
Recommends: Top 15 Pedro Almodóvar Films
Warning: Some Images NSFW Pedro Almodóvar’s latest cinematic feat is something monumental in his long career. A short film starring Tilda...
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Kerry Chambers
- Apr 14, 2021
- 13 min
Recommends: Top 10 Films about Filmmaking
Cinema is art in motion, stories around the campfire retold in astounding ways, humanity playing out on the big screen, a spectacle to...
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Kerry Chambers
- Mar 31, 2021
- 17 min
Recommends: The Cinema of Lee Chang-dong and Why He’s Your New Favourite Director
An avid lover of modern South Korean cinema - finding its social and political voice excitingly engaging, with great humour and brilliant...
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Kerry Chambers
- Feb 10, 2021
- 17 min
Recommends: Top 10 Love Stories to Indulge in on Valentines Day
‘What grace have I to fall so in love?’ - Lizzie West Valentine’s Day is naff, we all know it. Coming from a bitter old hag like myself...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jan 25, 2021
- 15 min
Recommends: Top 15 Sion Sono Films
I was rather preoccupied in 2020, delving into the realms of Japanese cinema and best of all discovering Japan’s most subversive and...
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Kerry Chambers
- Dec 4, 2020
- 9 min
Recommends: Top 10 Alternative Christmas Films
Are you tired of the usual Christmas line-up? Has The Muppets Christmas Carol, It's a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th Street turned...
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Kerry Chambers
- Nov 14, 2020
- 9 min
Recommends: Wong Kar-Wai Films Ranked
I've been on a little high as I revisit one of my favourite filmmakers this week. Escapism, desire and longing captured through the lens...
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Kerry Chambers
- Oct 11, 2020
- 12 min
Recommends: Top 15 Films to Enjoy this Halloween
Halloween is drawing ever nearer and with the possibility of a night-in for most, I have decided to reflect on some of my favourite...
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Kerry Chambers
- Sep 9, 2020
- 16 min
Recommends: My Top 20 Anime Series (Part 2)
“Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions.” - Hayao Miyazaki Back again to continue the list of...
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Kerry Chambers
- Sep 5, 2020
- 11 min
Recommends: My Top 20 Anime Series (Part 1)
“Anime – it’s not something that can be thought of in a hall for conferences. It is made out of strange juices current from the brain of...
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Kerry Chambers
- Aug 20, 2020
- 7 min
Recommends: Top 10 Hirokazu Koreeda Films
Hirokazu Koreeda is the master of the modern socially-conscious, family drama who chooses to explore the various dynamics in the familial...
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Kerry Chambers
- Aug 12, 2020
- 18 min
Recommends: Top 20 Anime Films That Have Influenced Me
Anime had produced some of the best visuals, characters and storytelling since the dawn of cinema. But it currently isn’t as highly...
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Kerry Chambers
- Aug 1, 2020
- 12 min
Recommends: Top 15 Studio Ghibli Films
Studio Ghibli’s cinema was the first time I really understood the difference between a children’s film and a family film. Until then my...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jul 23, 2020
- 13 min
Recommends: Top 15 Akira Kurosawa Films
Today I want to do a countdown of my top fifteen Akira Kurosawa films, a favourite director of mine who was one of the greatest writers...
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Kerry Chambers
- Jul 10, 2020
- 10 min
Recommends: Top 15 of Japanese Cinema
Of the vast international cinemas out there, Japan is my favourite. Off-beat storytelling, rich culture and history and an eye for gentle...
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