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Looking for America Writer-director Emanuele Crialese (Respiro (2002), Once We Were Strangers (1997)) sets his tale of immigrants’ dreams in Sicily at the beginning of the 20th century – the (at times brutal) immigrant experience is portrayed, stretching from a dirt-poor Sicilian hamlet to Ellis Island, the ‘Golden Door’ to the United States. [photopress:harold_pinter.jpg,thumb,alignleft] A respectful pause ‘There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. A thing is not necessarily either true or false; it can be both true and false.’ – Harold Pinter. Picturenose would take this opportunity to pay tribute to Harold Pinter, [...] [photopress:Repo_Man.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Always intense… You will kindly bear with me here when I explain that it’s taken me quite some time to review this, one of my favourite films ever. You see, it’s kind of because I can’t explain why I like it. It’s one of those films that don’t seem to really mean anything, it has [...] [photopress:Waiter_1.jpg,thumb,alignleft] Prepare to meet your maker… Reality’s not what it used to be – ‘meta’ reality, namely the displacement of characters/director/author/viewers in cinematic narrative, has been done before – John Carpenter’s In The Mouth Of Madness (1995) played the game for scares, with its central character slowly realizing that he is the doomed hero in a [...] Stay Staying power |
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