Category: Film
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Are You Really Here, or Are You a Figment of My Imagination: The Poetry of Sarah Chapman
Read more: Are You Really Here, or Are You a Figment of My Imagination: The Poetry of Sarah ChapmanAs a preparation for what most definitely will become an awesome year at the Writer’s Block editorial board, I ventured into some unknown literary territory during the last summer holidays. I never read much poetry, so I decided to finally do something about that and ended up reading an anthology published by the British Black…
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Recognizing McDormand & Willis
Read more: Recognizing McDormand & WillisWhy we should all hug and recognize Frances McDormand and Bruce Willis (On the therapeutic effects of complex characters)
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Mad Max: Feminist Road
Read more: Mad Max: Feminist RoadI am going to be completely honest here and tell you that 1) I haven’t seen the first three Mad Max movies (which were released in the eighties) and 2) my main reason for wanting to see Fury Road is the fact that it has been called “feminist propaganda” more times than I care to…
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La Ciénaga
Read more: La CiénagaThese are hard times for an Amsterdam-based film buff like me. With the socially charged and inexplicable recent evictions of Amsterdam’s Slangenpand and Maagdenhuis, the city centre has also quickly lost two nice venues for interesting and unusual film screenings. Let’s just hope this will never happen to the alternative Filmhuis Cavia, which, in order…
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