Film Reviews Blog

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Saturday 20th April 2013

2001

Time Out

Director : Laurent Cantet

Synopsis extract :
Man has lost his job but pretends to family that he has a new one

Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 20 Apr 2013

Review of "Time Out"

Excellent picture of the hollowness and sterility of business life until the cop-out end.



Saturday 30th March 2013

2011

Two Years at Sea

Director : Ben Rivers

Synopsis extract :
Curious and unexplained observation of a man living in alone in the Scottish highlands
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Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 30 Mar 2013

Review of "Two Years at Sea"

B&W documentary without any words or narrative. Odd.



Sunday 17th March 2013

2009

A Serious Man

Director : Coen Brothers

Synopsis extract :
Nothing significant happens

Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 17 Mar 2013

Review of "A Serious Man"

Portentous rubbish about small town american jewish life in the 1960s



Sunday 10th March 2013

Synopsis extract :
Sound effects man hired to work on film in post production in Italy enters a closed world
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Reviewed by Roger, DVD proj @ home on 10 Mar 2013

Review of "Berberian Sound Studio"

(Nic Knowland as DoP) Rather lost its direction in last third



Sunday 3rd March 2013

Rated by Roger, Odeon Taunton on 03 Mar 2013