DAILY FILM DOSE: A Daily Film Appreciation and Review Blog
Thursday, 25 February 2016

Sweetie

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Sweetie, the title character of  Jane Campion’s idiosyncratic and  typically Aussie -quirky  first feature, is the house guest from hell,...
Friday, 19 February 2016

Blackhat

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It’s impossible not to watch a Michael Mann film these days without the context of his previous work in mind. Because virtually each and...
Friday, 12 February 2016

The Gold Rush

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The second of Chaplin’s feature films (after 1921’s 'The Kid') loses nothing over time, easily gliding past all technical innov...
Tuesday, 2 February 2016

The Hunger

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Overwhelmingly beautiful but cold, Tony Scott’s The Hunger, once dismissed back in the day, now resounds as a seminal film of the vampire...
Friday, 29 January 2016

52 Pick Up

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This underseen Elmore Leonard-penned project about a prominent LA industrialist blackmailed for his infidelity cruises through the se...
Wednesday, 13 January 2016

The Revenant

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Perhaps more admirable and commendable than moving or masterful, the large scale frontier adventure tale visualized with eye-popping wide...
Friday, 8 January 2016

Elvis on Tour

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You don't have to be an Elvis fan to be thrilled by this treasure of a documentary depicting the elder Elvis, in the twilight of his c...
Tuesday, 5 January 2016

Best of 2015

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IT FOLLOWS (dir. David Robert Mitchell) David Robert Mitchell’s exercise in horror minimalism masterfully pulls off the best retro movi...
Wednesday, 1 July 2015

Mon Oncle Antoine

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Regarded by many as the greatest Canadian film ever made. The story of a rural and wintery Quebec mining town as seen through eyes of a yo...
Friday, 8 May 2015

Citizen Kane

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Even heady proclamations like the ‘Greatest Film Ever Made’ cannot overstate how powerful this picture is. The story of a mercurial newsp...
Friday, 20 March 2015

Still Life

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Jia Zhangke's revered masterwork of the last decade shines as one of the definitive films of this unique period in political, economi...
Thursday, 12 March 2015

The Tall T

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 In the late 1950s the prolific duo of director Budd Boetticher and  star Randolph Scott made a number of Westerns that would influence fil...
Monday, 9 March 2015

Gone With the Wind

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Gone With the Wind is that rare case where its desire for ‘grandeur’ trickles down successfully through every aspect of production. From ...
Friday, 6 March 2015

Straw Dogs

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One of Sam Peckinpah's handful or more unquestionable triumphs, a classic morality tale that furthers his career examination of v...
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