DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog
Thursday, 28 February 2013

Secretariat

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A handsome and classy Disney-sports drama, surprisingly intelligent and detailed about the sport. While mostly free of the schmaltzy sapp...
Tuesday, 26 February 2013

The Ballad of Narayama

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A brilliant hybrid of stage theatricality and bold colour anamorphic photography elevate this strange Japanese folk legend of a woman who...
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Monday, 25 February 2013

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

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This film gets me every time. The final moments, when the Chief discovers McMurphy’s been lobotomized, kills him out of pity, then complet...
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Friday, 22 February 2013

People on Sunday

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A unique collaboration of future Hollywood ex-pats, Robert Siodmak, Billy Wilder, Fred Zinneman, Curt Siodmak and Edgar Ulmer meets the m...
Thursday, 21 February 2013

Contagion

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Contagion is a film to enjoy in the moment and forget once it's finished. While it portends to be a film about 'ideas', the o...
Wednesday, 20 February 2013

Skyfall

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Perhaps the best action scene ever in a Bond film is a remarkable hand-to-hand scrap in a Shanghai high rise, elegantly shot in silhouett...
Tuesday, 19 February 2013

Ivan's Childhood

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Andrei Tarkovsky's debut is a whilring dervish of cinema, and perhaps the final word on the impact of war on children on film. As an in...
Friday, 15 February 2013

Cabaret

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Rethinking the traditional notions of the Hollywood musical, Bob Fosse’s Cabaret still bedazzles us with seemless blend pre-war period me...
Thursday, 14 February 2013

The Duellists

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Little seen and infrequently discussed, it's easy to forget Ridley Scott made this humble period film, based on Joseph Conrad's s...
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Wednesday, 13 February 2013

Source Code

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Good on Duncan Jones, who authored the wonderful sci-fi low budgeter Moon to quickly take on some more work. But as a director taking the...
Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Mon Oncle Antoine

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The story of a rural and wintery Quebec mining town as seen through eyes of a young teenage boy, Antoine is deservedly revered for it'...
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Monday, 11 February 2013

Tron Legacy

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There’s a strong whiff of the Matrix wafting through Tron Legacy for good and bad. The retro action jamboree, the 80’s nostalgic cyberpunk...
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Friday, 8 February 2013

Something Wild

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'Something Wild' surviving the stink of the 80's stands up as one of the best films of the decade. It sits in a pile of unquan...
Wednesday, 6 February 2013

The Dead Zone

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Despite the auspicious pairing of Stephen King and David Cronenberg, The Dead Zone is more cerebral and brooding than the gorefest one mig...
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