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Situationist group The Royal Family and the Poor recorded for Factory Records

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Shohei Imamura, Unagi (1997)

Koji Yakusho in Shohei Imamura's Unagi (1997)

Lisa Mckay, AKA Lisa Loud, is yet another unsung hero / heroine of Balearic Beat and Acid House. Let`s face it, the boys involved have taken

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Back in February I spent a couple of hours with Mixmaster Morris, on Zoom. This resulted in 2 separate articles for Electronic Sound. Howeve

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Nefeli Papadimouli, Skinscapes (Three) (2021)

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A Public Domain design resource created from public infrastructure

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'While shooting the film someone outside the production asked me what kind of film we were making. I wanted to tell them that it was a "semi-neorealist black-comedy in the style of an imaginary Eastern-European film director obsessed with Ozu and familiar with the 1950’s American television show 'The Honeymooners'". Instead I mumbled something about it being a minimal story about Hungarian immigrants and their view of America. Neither answer is right, but the question made me aware that its easier to talk about the style of the film than 'what it's about', or what happens in the story.'

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'Carl Dreyer, in one of his essays, wrote about the effect of simplification, saying that if you remove all superfluous objects from a room, the few remaining objects can somehow become "psychological evidence of the occupant’s personality". Instead of applying this idea just to physical objects in STRANGER THAN PARADISE, it is applied to the formal way the story is told. Simple scenes are presented, in chronological order, but often independent from one another. Only selected moments are presented, eliminating, for the most part, points of 'dramatic action'. Films must find new ways of describing real emotions and real lives without manipulating the audience in the familiar, maudlin ways, and without the recently fashionable elimination of all emotion.'

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'these actors were able to create realistic characters, hopefully without ever calling attention to themselves as 'actors'. Nick Ray used to insist that if you even stop to think about the ability of a given actor in a film, then you have lost the character being portrayed, and the acting is useless.'

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