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Film Top 10 - 2021

Film Top 10 - 2021

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52 Films By Women - 2021 Edition

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Jean de Florette & Manon des Sources

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Respire

52 Films By Women - December & wrap-up

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Three Colours: Blue, White & Red

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Raise The Red Lantern

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50. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) 49. At the End of the Tunnel (2016) 48. The Other Me (2016) […]

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Film Top 50 – 2024

  • 2024
  • Film
  • Top 50
by Bas van Stratum
Published January 1, 2025

When you watch an average of more than one movie per day the whole year long, so 7+ each week, […]

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52 Films By Women – 2024 Edition

  • 52 Films By Women
  • Film
  • South Korean
by Bas van Stratum
Published November 2, 2024
Header (Castaway on the Moon)

All about that one time I started watching Korean films one day and never stopped.

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One South Korean film a day

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  • 2023
  • 52 Films By Women
  • Film
  • Review
  • South Korean
by Bas van Stratum
Published December 21, 2023

In one of the pinnacles of silent cinema, Louise Brooks opens Pandora's Box and sex, lust, and charm comes oozing out.

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Pandora’s Box – G. W. Pabst – 1929

  • 1929
  • Crime
  • Die Büchse der Pandora
  • Drama
  • Film
  • G. W. Pabst
  • Louise Brooks
  • Pandora's Box
  • Review
  • Romance
  • Silent Film
by Bas van Stratum
Published April 4, 2023
Sound of the Mountain

Sound of the Mountain and Mikio Naruse One of my big discoveries of 2017 is Japanese director Mikio Naruse. That […]

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Sound of the Mountain – Mikio Naruse – 1954

  • 1954
  • Drama
  • Film
  • Japanese
  • Mikio Naruse
  • Review
  • Setsuko Hara
  • Sound of the Mountain
  • Yama no oto
by Bas van Stratum
Published January 18, 2022
Film Top 10 - 2021

My ten favourite new-to-me films I have seen in 2021.

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Film Top 10 – 2021

  • 2021
  • After the Wedding
  • All About My Mother
  • Day for Night
  • Film
  • Goodbye Mr. Chips
  • Last Night in Soho
  • Le trou
  • On Body and Soul
  • The Invisible Guest
  • The Scent of Green Papaya
  • The Train
  • Top 10
by Bas van Stratum
Published January 4, 2022
Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

My top 10 best new-to-me films directed by women for the year 2021. A trip around the globe with films from 7 countries and 4 continents.

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52 Films By Women – 2021 Edition

  • 52 Films By Women
  • A New Leaf
  • Elaine May
  • Eliza Hittman
  • Film
  • Ildikó Enyedi
  • Kelly Reichardt
  • Kinuyo Tanaka
  • Look Both Ways
  • Marija Kavtaradzė
  • Meek’s Cutoff
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • On Body and Soul
  • Sarah Watt
  • Summer Survivors
  • Susanne Bier
  • Tal Granit
  • The Eternal Breasts
  • The Farewell Party
  • The One and Only
  • Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara
  • Zoya Akhtar
by Bas van Stratum
Published January 3, 2022
Noirvember 2021

Noirvember 2021. What is this thing called Noirvember, and what did the first week of dabbling in darkness amount to?

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Noirvember 2021

  • A Colt Is My Passport
  • A Woman's Vengeance
  • Film
  • Film Noir
  • Hammett
  • Noirvember
  • Noirvember 2021
by Bas van Stratum
Published November 20, 2021
Brink of Life

In Brink of Life, a less known Ingmar Bergman drama, three women in a maternity ward experience their own stories with their hardships and joys.

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Brink of Life – Ingmar Bergman – 1958

  • 1958
  • Brink of Life
  • Drama
  • Film
  • Ingmar Bergman
  • Nära livet
  • Review
  • So Close to Life
  • Swedish
by Bas van Stratum
Published October 3, 2021
Where Do We Go Now?

Where Do We Go Now? is a Lebanese comedy / drama about women of different religions in a small village try to keep the peace as national issues escalate.

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Where Do We Go Now? – Nadine Labaki – 2011

  • 2011
  • Arabic
  • Comedy
  • Directed by a woman
  • Drama
  • Film
  • Nadine Labaki
  • Review
by Bas van Stratum
Published September 25, 2021
Linda Linda Linda

A high school girl rock band is forced to find a new lead singer just a few days before the school festival.

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Linda Linda Linda – Nobuhiro Yamashita – 2005

  • 2005
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Film
  • Japanese
  • Music
  • Nobuhiro Yamashita
  • Review
by Bas van Stratum
Published September 19, 2021

PSA: Site crashed, site restored (sort of, kind of, mostly, probably)

Coding

PSA: site crash, partial restore

  • PSA
by Bas van Stratum
Published September 19, 2021

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My first wife was the second cook at a third-rate joint on 4th Street.

— Rusty, The Glass Key (1942)

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