D.W. Mault
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Film Review: ‘The Man Whose Mind Exploded’
★★★☆☆ Descartes believed that nothing ever existed, that everything his mind told him was a lie, and cinema is of course a standing recourse for memory and the unresolved tensions that plague the unconscious. Film’s representation of loss and the yearning chasm for its fulfilment trumps all other attempts at Socratic discourse within other art…
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Sheffield DocFest 2014: Visitors review
★★★★☆ Godfrey Reggio seems cursed to be forever looked upon as a perpetrator of the modes and forms of the music video and advert like his comrade in arms, Terrence Malick; but it’s they who have been asset stripped by the parasitical behemoth of those nascent industries. When faced with the conundrum of chicken and…
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Film Review: ‘When I Saw You’
★★☆☆☆ Good intentions are the preserve of the deserved, which is a paradox that Berlin Film Festival prize-winner When I Saw You (2012) never completely overcomes. Following on from her acclaimed 2008 debut film Salt of This Sea, director Annemarie Jacir stumbles with this slight tale of a mother and son detached from their Palestinian…
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Film Review: ‘Battle Company: Korengal’
★★★☆☆ When is too much enough and not enough moreish is the question one takes away from Sebastian Junger’s sequel to his award winning and epoch busting 2010 documentary Restrepo, which he co-directed with recently deceased photographer Tim Hetherington. Battle Company: Korengal (2014) again focuses with a piercing gaze on Battle Company, 173rd Airborne Brigade…
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Film Review: ‘The King and the Mockingbird’
★★★★☆ Marking the 30th anniversary of its UK debut, StudioCanal rereleases the highly influential The King and the Mockingbird (1980) in a fully restored version after a popular reissue in France last year, offering audiences both old and new the chance to experience a landmark work of sublime hand-drawn animation 28 years in the making.…