Author Archives: Bina

Silvia Pelissero and the colors of melancholy

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La nostra infinita abnegazione
Just one hour memory III
My eyes refuse to accept passive tears
Our great love story
About a new place
Antimonochromatismo
Non parlarne mai
Sheets of colored glass
Crisp Morning
This thing called art is really dangerous
Thought in metastasis

Side Effects - Always read the label

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Reblogged from The Diary of a Film Cricket: Allegedly Steven Soderbergh’s last film (I for one won’t believe it ’til he’s dead), Side Effects is an adept, twisty work that ranks among the prolific director’s more interesting and unexpectedly strong films. More familiar to audiences for his straight, often stripped-back genre pieces such as Sex, …

Trance - all in the mind, not in the script

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Reblogged from The Diary of a Film Cricket: Memory’s a tricky subject to study in film, and the complex workings of the mind are even trickier. Danny Boyle, surely one of the most ambitious and thematically ambidextrous filmmakers working today, here takes his shot at making a real mind-bender, following in the footsteps of Christopher …

The 5 Worst Films of 2012 (In No Particular Order)

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Reblogged from Simply Film: At a certain point, I draw the line. While it is true that many films slink off quietly to die in the grey swamps of mediocrity, and every now and then a truly exceptional specimen will break the surface of stagnation like a glittering marlin, it is also true that a …

Argo - Hollywood's finest exodus since The Ten Commandments

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Reblogged from The Diary of a Film Cricket: With tensions increasing in the Middle East as Iran comes ever closer to developing the bomb, this quite brilliant, witty political thriller seems very timely, despite being set over 30 years ago. Argo, the latest from one-time Hollywood poster boy/laughing stock Ben Affleck, now a respected director …