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Kerry Chambers
Apr 25, 202310 min read
Recommends: Top 10 Walerian Borowczyk Films
*Some Images NSFW* Director, animator, provocateur, the ‘engineer of ecstasy’ and more, Walerian Borowczyk wore many a guise in his...
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Kerry Chambers
Feb 21, 202316 min read
Recommends: Top 20 Werner Herzog Films
I've got Herzog on the brain. A renegade; as much a fictitious titan as he is grounded in reality. From his tumultuous relationship with...
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Kerry Chambers
Oct 13, 202216 min read
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, 202212 min read
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, 202210 min read
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
Jun 6, 20225 min read
'He'll No Longer Sing...': Koko-di Koko-da (Nyholm, 2019) Review
“Our rooster's dead, our rooster's dead, He'll no longer sing kokodi, kokoda,” Koko-di, Koko-dull… that was dreadful, but then again so...
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Kerry Chambers
Apr 13, 20225 min read
'... A Spectator in my Own Life': The Worst Person in the World (Trier, 2021) Review
Sometimes a film feels like a mirror is being held up to you. Sometimes it feels like a little bit of déjà vu. The strangest of these is...
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Kerry Chambers
Mar 27, 202219 min read
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
Feb 10, 20225 min read
'It Takes a Village...': Parallel Mothers (Almodóvar, 2022) Review
Pedro Almodóvar is in a new phase of storytelling, a far more pensive and thoughtful phase all the while speckled with his characteristic...
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Kerry Chambers
Nov 30, 202120 min read
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
Nov 12, 202110 min read
‘However Much We May Love Them…’: Drive My Car (Hamaguchi, 2021) Review
“After all, it’s just a matter of flesh and blood. No more than a pile of bone and ash in the end right? There has to be something more...
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Kerry Chambers
Oct 28, 20217 min read
'Though I Look Like Hell...': The Season of the Samurai
Halloween! Where did you come from? Do I wish I could remember how I’ve spent the month I should have been indulging in all things...
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Kerry Chambers
Sep 10, 202126 min read
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, 202124 min read
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, 202117 min read
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, 202116 min read
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, 202117 min read
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
Jun 1, 202114 min read
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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Kerry Chambers
Apr 14, 202113 min read
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, 202117 min read
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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