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Agree with you about Azor - good film.
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Yes, there's something about the atmosphere of that film - and the end, the sheer banality of it all, that is utterly horrifying. No blood, no gore, no dead bodies, just the bleak accountancy of murder. It still makes me shudder.
 
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Kinds of Kindness: Following hard on the heels of Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos' latest film is even quirkier, indeed in comparison Poor Things is a straightforward retelling of the Frankenstein tale. This is an anthology film, three loosely linked stories, Willem Dafoe is a crazed boss, a father and a cult leader. Jesse Plemons is an employee whose entire life is controlled by his boss, a policeman whose wife goes missing and a cult member on a mission, Emma Stone is a love interest of Plemons, the missing wife who turns strangely changed and Plemins partner on the cult mission. It's difficult in mere words to describe how weird this film is but i@;; try, I'll refrain from mentioning what links the stories. Dafoe isn't your normal control freak, he dictates Plemons' diet, sex life and even sends presents like McEntoe's smashed tennis racquet from 1984, Cannibalism, an island ruled by dogs, a quest for a prophet who can raise the dead, staged car crashes, changelings all feature. Some disturbing scenes, a creepy ex husband can be as bad as a cult leader, dismemberment and murder of injured people not to mention suicide, Though this is a very dark comedy it is not a film for the squeamish. But if you're familiar with Lanthimos then you know what to expect; he was a bit self indulgent in the films running tine of 164 minutes, It would have benefited from a a 20 minute cut Convincing performances from Dafoe, Stone and Plemons with good support from Margaret Qualley. and Hong Chau. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, screenplay by Lanthimos and Efthimis Filippou. 8/10.

In cinemas.
 
TRIUMPH, next years Bulgarian Oscar entry, is a mostly comedic look at the Tsarichina Hole mystery, where their Military spent two years in the 90's digging for something extra-terrestrial on the advice of psychics. Thread here -

https://forums.forteana.org/index.php?threads/the-tsarichina-hole-bulgaria-1990s.67532/

Maria Bakalova (best known as Borat's daughter) plays one of the psychics. It's funny, absurd, and hard to believe some of this actually went on! Seen at the London Film Festival.

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CADDO LAKE, set around the lakes and swamps in Louisiana, follows an extended family who live on the waterfront, and the disappearance of one of the children... which leads to a mystery uncovered in the middle of the lake.

Produced by M.Night, but much better than anything he's directed lately!

On Sky Movies in the UK.

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Indiana Jones-Kingdom of the Crystal Skull wasn't very good. This is a game instead but it's way better than Crystal Skull so far and the walkthrough's an engrossing watch.

The intro to this game's a rehash of Raiders of the Lost Ark with a new story to follow. Look out for a cameo by the late Tony Todd.

Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. Get your popcorn ready.

 
Queer: This film surprised me, I thought it was going to be about William Lee (Daniel Craig) hanging out in 1950s Mexico, drinking, injecting heroin and chasing after younger men. Well it was, but also much more. Touches of Magic Realism combine with dream and hallucination sequences to make this film just as esoteric as Naked Lunch. Naked Lunch was also written by William S. Burroughs in which he was again represented by the character William Lee. In Queer, Lee has twin obsessions one being Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), who has just finished his military service and is also living in Mexico City, the second being finding yagé, a plant said to offer telepathic abilities to those who consume it. Though engaging in a relationship with Lee, Allerton is diffident towards him but agrees to go on an expedition into the amazon jungle to find the plant. There they meet the bizarre botanist Dr Cotter (Lesley Manville). A love story, a fantasy, a quest for a holy grail, a sort of Road Movie. Much drinking and drugging occurs along with Lee cruising before he hooks up with Allerton. There is a touch of David Lynch to some of the sequences along with what looks like two homages to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Directed by Luca Guadagnino from a screenplay by Justin Kuritzkes, based on the 1985 novella by William S. Burroughs. 8/10.
 
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Death Of A Unicorn looks interesting. That and her name being Ridley so Ridley Scott/Blade Runner/unicorn in joke o'clock .. and whatshisface out of Withnail & I .. and a unicorn ..

 
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The Order: The Order were a White Supremacist group based in the US Pacific North-West who carried out a terror campaign between September 1983 and December 1984. Robbing banks, bombing Synagogues, counterfeiting currency. What made them different from other such groups was their ambitions, they were following steps laid out in The Turner Diaries which was to culminate in mass terror attacks. In this drama based on the events, FBI Agent Terry Husk (Jude Law) has been transferred to the boondocks in Idaho, he's burned out but loves the countryside, he hopes that his estranged wife and daughters might move out there. He seeks out trouble though, noticing that the Aryan Nation compound is nearby. Learning that The Order leader Bob Mathews (Nicholas Hoult) along with other members had split from Aryan Nation, he visits the compound meeting AN founder Richard Butler. It's an eerie sequence, swastikas on roofs, children giving nazi salutes, a swastika form of a cross in a church. This scene is only topped by one of The Order swearing allegiance to the white race over a newly born baby. Matthews has a complicated relationship with Butler who wants to gradually win power. Husk and Matthews become each other's nemesis's, at one stage Matthews stalking Husk while he stalks a deer. A violent film with some powerful action sequences involving bank robberies and armoured car heists. The murder of Alan Berg, a talk radio host who taunted The Order also features. This film is probably closer to reality than Betrayed by Costa-Garvas also based on The Order. I haven't read the book which this film was adapted from but I recommend Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg by Stephen Singular which also covers the history of The Order. Great performances from Law and Hoult. Directed by Justin Kurzel and Written by Zach Baylin, based on the 1989 non-fiction book The Silent Brotherhood by Kevin Flynn and Gary Gerhardt. 9/10.
 
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Reading the various comments I know that not everyone loves this film, but I think it is a fortean film. It is all based on synchronicity, on the butterfly effect, on the fact that, as Fort said, all things are connected in this world.
I am talking about Amélie. This is the beginning of the film (I could not find the official English translation and I translated from Italian):

On September 3, 1973, at 6:28 PM and 32 seconds, a fly of the Calliphoridae family, capable of 14,670 wing beats per minute, lands on Rue Saint-Vincent, in Montmartre. At the same time, in an outdoor restaurant a stone's throw from the Moulin de la Galette, the wind magically insinuates itself under a tablecloth, making the glasses dance without anyone noticing. At that moment, on the fifth floor of 28 Avenue Trudaine, IX Arrondissement, Eugène Koler, returning from the funeral of his best friend, Emile Maginot, erases his name from his address book.At the same time, a sperm with the X chromosome of Mr. Raphaël Poulain, breaks away from the platoon to reach an egg of Mrs. Poulain, born Amandine Fouet. Nine months later, Amélie Poulain was born.
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I talked about it on this page: http://www.piloton.it/cinema/amelie.html .
In addition to being in Italian (right click to translate) it also has several references to Italian culture that perhaps not everyone knows.But I'll close with an English reference:

To give. To feel compassion. To control oneself. And three times "inner peace." This is the close of that great poem, Eliot's "The Waste Lands," which is also the close of an Upanishad.

Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih
(T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922)
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KRYPTIC showed at SXSW festival a year ago, but looks like it will now have a release:

Director Kourtney Roy‘s feature debut, Kryptic, centers around an amnesiac in pursuit of a missing cryptozoologist and the Canadian cryptid she was pursuing. Don’t expect a straightforward approach to this cryptid tale, though. Kryptic earns its title and then some, unfurling an esoteric psycho-thriller that uses its forest dwelling creature as an atypical monster metaphor.
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https://bloody-disgusting.com/reviews/3802911/kryptic-review-a-goopy-cryptic-psycho-thriller-sxsw/

 
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