News of the World - review
News of the World is a preposterously, epically bad film. I know, it's just, like, your opinion, man. Well, it is, but let's examine the...
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Jarek Kupść
Dec 20, 20203 min read
Mank - review
Mank, in its audacity to tackle a myth, is both supremely engaging and infuriatingly defective. It manages to be grand and banal at the...
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Jarek Kupść
Sep 25, 20205 min read
Medium Cool - which side are you on?
USA. In a few months leading up to the presidential election, an African American is brutally murdered. There is no end to senseless...
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Jarek Kupść
Sep 6, 20203 min read
John Saxon, 1936-2020
John Saxon – what can you say about a man who beat Marlon Brando in an arm-wrestling match, pulled a knife on Burt Lancaster, presided...
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Jarek Kupść
Jun 18, 20202 min read
The Ground Beneath My Feet – review
The new Austrian film, The Ground Beneath My Feet (TGBMF), is an intense study of a woman’s struggle to protect her identity in a sterile...
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Jarek Kupść
Jun 10, 20202 min read
Apocalypse Now – a holiday package
Conrad Travel is proud to present our latest package tour: The All-inclusive Apocalypse Experience. We start in Saigon, where you will be...
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Jarek Kupść
May 29, 20202 min read
Pavarotti dreaming
San Francisco, circa 1997. I'm working on something under a deadline. It's a quiet Sunday morning, I can get this thing done. The fog...
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Jarek Kupść
May 16, 20202 min read
Maborosi – Kore-eda's signature style
Maborosi is one of the most assured first films ever. As if Hirokazu Kore-eda came out of the gate a fully formed stylist, with an...
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Jarek Kupść
May 13, 20204 min read
High Anxiety – Favourite film at 12
The ground was primed: I had been recently voted the school clown by our principal. My reputation was based mostly on slapstick – banging...
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Jarek Kupść
May 13, 20204 min read
Cruising – Through a looking glass
Cruising (1980) is my favourite Al Pacino picture, as well as my second favourite William Friedkin film after Sorcerer (1977). Cruising...
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Jarek Kupść
May 7, 20202 min read
Blue Velvet – a cast to die for
Blue Velvet has a perfect cast – David Lynch has a brilliant ability to find just the right actors, from the leads to the extras. His...
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Jarek Kupść
Mar 24, 20202 min read
At Eternity’s Gate – review
At Eternity’s Gate probably doesn't deserve too much attention. If anything, it offers a visceral depiction of the painting craft itself...
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Jarek Kupść
Mar 24, 20201 min read
Uncut Gems – review
Uncut Gems is as close as we get to the neo-noir crime jewels of the 1970s. There are hints of Toback's Fingers (1978) and Schrader...
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Jarek Kupść
Mar 24, 20201 min read
Bibi Andersson – 1935-2019
Bibi Andersson - the subject of the most disturbingly beautiful shot in history of cinema just faded to black. Ingmar Bergman has always...
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Jarek Kupść
Mar 22, 20201 min read
Fly, Crali, fly
Tullio Crali, a relative late-comer to Futurism, picked up flying as a teenager. Unlike some of his older aeropittura colleagues, his...
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Jarek Kupść
Mar 21, 20203 min read
Il dolce Fellini
For newcomers to Fellini only: Much has been written recently about La Dolce Vita – and deservingly so. But if you haven't experienced...
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Jarek Kupść
Mar 21, 20201 min read
Rutger Hauer – 1944-2019
Hauer exuded unbelievable charisma with a dose of mischief, like a favourite but petulant child who knew he could get away with anything....
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Jarek Kupść
Mar 21, 20202 min read
Japanese line
Manga, especially of the much maligned hentai variety, has its roots in the art of shunga, a highly erotic, sometimes pornographic type...
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Jarek Kupść
Mar 19, 20202 min read
Bruce Lee – The Legacy
Not many people realise what Bruce Lee represented back in his day. His first TV show in the US, The Green Hornet (1966, known as The...
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Jarek Kupść
Mar 19, 20202 min read
My front yard
Our playground was an asphalt patch between two concrete slabs of housing blocks. From that petrified soil rose iron skeletons of swings,...
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