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I WISH (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2011)

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Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Jȏ Odagiri, Koki Maeda You may like this if you like: The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2011), The Colour of Paradise (Majid Majidi, 1999), Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, 1986) Since their … Continue reading

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THE LONE RANGER (Gore Verbinski, 2013)

Starring: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fichtner You may like this if you like: Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Gore Verbinski, 2003), John Carter (Andrew Stanton, 2012), Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) … Continue reading

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THE BURFORD TOP 10S: MY PERSONAL TOP 10 FILM COMPOSERS OF ALL TIME

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I once heard a TV producer claim that, and I quote, “the composer is there to sort out scenes where the writer has fucked up”. There is an element of truth in that and for me the music in a … Continue reading

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A LATE QUARTET (Yaron Zilberman, 2012)

  Starring: Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener You may like this if you like: Broken Flowers (Jim Jarmusch, 2005), About Schmidt (Alexander Payne, 2002), Quartet (Dustin Hoffman, 2012) The Fugue are an extremely successful quartet that have been … Continue reading

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THE PAPERBOY (Lee Daniels, 2012)

  Starring: Mathew McConaughey, Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman You may like this if you like: Killer Joe (William Friedkin, 2011), Mud (Jeff Nichols, 2012), A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951) Hotshot Miami Times reporter Ward Jansen (McConaughey) returns to … Continue reading

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THE WOLVERINE (James Mangold, 2013)

  Starring: Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima You may like this if you like: X-Men Origins: Wolverine (Gavin Hood, 2009), The Bourne Identity (Doug Liman, 2002), Batman Begins (Christopher Nolan, 2005) Set after the events of The Last Stand … Continue reading

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THE ABCS OF DEATH (26 Different directors, 2012)

Starring: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Kyra Zagorsky, Iván González You may like this if you like: Three… Extremes (Fruit Chan et al, 2004), Destricted (Marina Abramovich et al, 2006), V/H/S (David Bruckner et al, 2012) An anthology consisting of 26 short … Continue reading

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A FIELD IN ENGLAND (Ben Wheatley, 2013)

Starring: Reece Shearsmith, Michael Smiley, Julian Barratt You may like this if you like: Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968), Pi (Darren Aronofsky, 1998), Sightseers (Ben Wheatley, 2012) During the English Civil War a man by the name of Whitehead (Shearsmith) … Continue reading

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VILLAGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Sarah Gavron and David Katznelson, 2012)

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  Starring: The villagers of Niaqornat You may like this if you like: The Peddler (Eduardo de la Serna et al, 2010), Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012), Trashed (Candida Brady, 2012) Shot over the course of a … Continue reading

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HUMMINGBIRD (Steven Knight, 2013)

  Starring: Jason Statham, Agata Buzek, Vicky McClure You may like this if you liked: Gran Torino (Clint Eastwood, 2008), Naked (Mike Leigh, 1993), The Limey (Steven Soderbergh, 1999) Ex Special Forces agent Joey (Statham, of course) now lives as … Continue reading

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