DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog
Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Fellini's Roma

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Fellini’s episodic romp through the space and time of the eternal city at the time of its release might have felt like an indulgent recyc...
Wednesday, 28 December 2016

Best of 2016

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This year's Best of List includes familiar awards contenders, such as Moonlight and Manchester By the Sea,  strange head scratcher...
Tuesday, 20 December 2016

Akira Kurosawa's Dreams

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'Dreams' is pure cinema, an intoxicating assembly of images, sound and thought-provoking existentialism that only cinema can prov...
Friday, 2 December 2016

Short Cuts

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Robert Altman’s deliriously-intricate LA mosaic is just about the last word in ensemble film. With effortless style, Altman’s observation...
Friday, 18 November 2016

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

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For those new to 'McCabe and Mrs. Miller' it can be hard to relate to its reputation as the anti-Western that shook up the genre....
Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Sully

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The humble workmanlike nature of pilot Chesley ‘Sully’ Sullenberger who flew the Miracle on the Hudson plane into the Hudson River in Jan...
Thursday, 27 October 2016

Christine

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A horror film of a completely different kind, Rebecca Hall is mesmerizing in Antonio Campos’ sobering cinematic rendering of the true sto...
Tuesday, 25 October 2016

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum

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Often regarded as revered Japanese master Kenji Mizoguchi’s first masterpiece, this pre-war picture personifies the poetic elegance of th...
Friday, 7 October 2016

A Taste of Honey

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One of the seminal British kitchen sink dramas of the 60’s, A Taste of Honey, resounds today on the strength of Rita Tushingham’s delight...
Thursday, 22 September 2016

Night Train to Munich

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Carol Reed’s WWII espionage pot boiler confidently stands as tall as any of the celebrated Hitchcock war thrillers of the era. While thi...
Wednesday, 31 August 2016

Woman in the Dunes

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'Woman in the Dunes', the third film from Japanese provocateur Hiroshi Teshigahara, is an indefinable film for genre and full of ...
Thursday, 21 July 2016

Night and Fog

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Despite numerous other documentaries on the subject, as a masterwork of craft and technique, Alain Renais’ landmark Night and Fog still e...
Monday, 20 June 2016

Here Comes Mr. Jordan

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Alexander Hall’s thoroughly delightful ‘heavenly’ comedy, a Capra-esque tale of a deceased boxer who’s given a second chance at life by h...
Wednesday, 1 June 2016

The Naked Island

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Two lowly Japanese farmers repetitively climbing an intense incline slope from the seaside shore to the top of a mountain to water their ...
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