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    Existential Ecstasy: The Buddhist Trilogy by Akio Jissôji
    Kerry Chambers
    • Jun 1, 2021
    • 14 min

    Existential Ecstasy: The Buddhist Trilogy by Akio Jissôji

    *Some images NSFW* An illicit affair between brother and sister. A cult whose violent form of recruitment is through rape. A houseboy...
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    Video Kills the Streaming Star? Reflecting on Hideo Nakata's The Ring (1998)
    Kerry Chambers
    • Oct 31, 2020
    • 6 min

    Video Kills the Streaming Star? Reflecting on Hideo Nakata's The Ring (1998)

    With the state of all things, we are seeing the legitimate questioning of the relevance of cinema, it's current lack-ness and it's...
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    Music to My Ears - In Search of Soundtracks in Mainstream Cinema
    Kerry Chambers
    • Jul 17, 2020
    • 12 min

    Music to My Ears - In Search of Soundtracks in Mainstream Cinema

    Note: All scores used throughout this article I am very fond of, no hating from me on the links shared today. Music is possibly the...
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    Time Waits For No One: Why The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is Essential Viewing
    Kerry Chambers
    • Jun 22, 2020
    • 16 min

    Time Waits For No One: Why The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is Essential Viewing

    *Minor Spoilers - but not too many, hopefully enough to get you interested* ‘…I have an ideal to make movies that deal with values that...
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    Moral Ambiguity in Japanese Cinema: High & Low (1963) Princess Mononoke (1997), Shoplifters (2018)
    Kerry Chambers
    • Jun 4, 2020
    • 31 min

    Moral Ambiguity in Japanese Cinema: High & Low (1963) Princess Mononoke (1997), Shoplifters (2018)

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    Straw Dogs: The Representations of Rural Locations in the 1971 and the 2011 Remake
    Kerry Chambers
    • Jun 3, 2020
    • 8 min

    Straw Dogs: The Representations of Rural Locations in the 1971 and the 2011 Remake

    *Contains Spoilers* Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs, was set and filmed in Cornwall, England. It is about a married couple, David Sumner, an...
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    American Classic: The Cinematic Film Style Swathed in Tradition
    Kerry Chambers
    • May 31, 2020
    • 7 min

    American Classic: The Cinematic Film Style Swathed in Tradition

    The American Classic Film style was a popular form of making films in the western world between the 1920’s to 1960’s. Often they could be...
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    21st Century White-Washing in Film: How the Lack of Diversity is Changing the Stories we Tell
    Kerry Chambers
    • May 30, 2020
    • 10 min

    21st Century White-Washing in Film: How the Lack of Diversity is Changing the Stories we Tell

    The western film industry, as an institution, has certainly been guilty of lazy, ignorant and racist casting since its conception. It has...
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    Heritage Cinema: A Genre Analysis Comparing Jane Eyre (2011) and Pride & Prejudice (2005)
    Kerry Chambers
    • May 30, 2020
    • 11 min

    Heritage Cinema: A Genre Analysis Comparing Jane Eyre (2011) and Pride & Prejudice (2005)

    *Contains Spoilers* Literary adaptations and costume dramas have been produced on film since the beginning of cinema. British cinema has...
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    The Storyteller: An Exploration of the Writer/Directors Pedro Almodóvar and Neil Jordan
    Kerry Chambers
    • May 29, 2020
    • 8 min

    The Storyteller: An Exploration of the Writer/Directors Pedro Almodóvar and Neil Jordan

    *Contains Spoilers* The directors are ultimately storytellers; people who rummage through their own lives and deliver honest reflections...
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    'From the Star...': Children of the Sea (Dir. Ayumu Watanabe, 2019) Review

    'From the Star...': Children of the Sea (Dir. Ayumu Watanabe, 2019) Review

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    'He'll No Longer Sing...': Koko-di Koko-da (Nyholm, 2019) Review

    'He'll No Longer Sing...': Koko-di Koko-da (Nyholm, 2019) Review

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    The Saboteur: Lounging on the Lily Pad Two Years On

    The Saboteur: Lounging on the Lily Pad Two Years On

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