5 min movie guide
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Winter Sleep
Turkish auteur filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest masterful epic is set in the steppes of Cappadocia on the desolate plains of Anatolia, which are heart-stoppingly beautiful. Some of the ancient caves carved into the side of this mountainous terrain have been converted into a Hotel by Aydin, a local landowner retired from acting. It’s the…
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Schultze Gets The Blues
Schultze is a recently retired German miner facing impending death and leading a god-awful supremely sad and boring life. His only outlet is playing polkas on his accordion which he does with a fatalistic reluctance until one day he accidental tunes his radio to a station that is playing zydeco music which combines blues with…
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Inherent Vice
The reclusive writer Thomas Pynchon is known for his dense and complex novels which he has never allowed to be adapted into movies, until now that is. When ‘Inherent Vice’ his seventh novel was published in 2009 the dust jacket proclaimed that it was ‘part-noir, part-psychedelic romp’. In the hands of auteur filmmaker Paul Thomas…
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The Search For General Tso
This odd but entertaining documentary from writer/director Ian Cheney is an inquiry into how a ubiquitous dish of fried chicken became a staple item on every single Chinese restaurant in the USA even though nobody back in Mainland China has ever heard of it. Cheney discovers there was an actual General Tso a military hero…
