Imran Khan
@MatutinalLife
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Contributing Editor @PopMatters...and other things, I guess...
Joined October 2018
Featuring the enigmatic Dominique Sanda; My review of the romantic period drama, "First Love", @PopMatters: #DominiqueSanda @mvdentgroup
First Love’s Slow Seduction Spare, yet strangely ornate, Swiss film First Love sings of a decadence that evokes the richly embroidered tales of Russian literature. - @MatutinalLife READ: https://t.co/RPpVuKe65M
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The 2 lost albums by JoBoxers (as well as their released debut) are now all released on @CherryRedGroup in one retrospective box set. My interview with the band is up @PopMatters: @digwayne @ChrisBostock01 @dccollard @joboxers_band #joboxers
JoBoxers Pull No Punches in This Retrospective Interview British new wave/ progressive soul band JoBoxers talk with PopMatters about cracking whips at lions and tigers and pulling no punches with their new box set of lost albums from Cherry Red Records. – @MatutinalLife READ:
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This one surprised me - it's quite wonderful! My review of "Racing With the Moon", released by @FunCityEdition, now published @PopMatters
#RacingWiththeMoon
@mvdentgroup #ElizabethMcGovern #SeanPenn #NicholasCage
@ElizabethMcGov
Sean Penn, Nicholas Cage, and Elizabeth McGovern's Coming of Age Drama Racing with the Moon Is Artful and Immersive If cinema is more than the sum of its parts, then Racing with the Moon is an immersive experience that pairs its talented performers with an artful and expert
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My Blu-ray review of the Italian feature "Girl With a Suitcase", published @PopMatters; its a great summer film with wonderful photography and performances. Available @FilmsRadiance. #ItalianCinema #RadianceFilms @mvdentgroup
Girl With a Suitcase Charms With Its Magnetic Performances Despite what appears to be a probing examination of the socioeconomics of the European class system, Girl With a Suitcase's pleasures are simple. – @MatutinalLife READ: https://t.co/O9J4sXEDt7
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Published @PopMatters, my review of 2 films by Shakhnazarov; highly absurd and stylish and entertaining, and released by @DeafCrocodile: https://t.co/SQ9cE34lL5…
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#deafcrocodile #MVDEntertainment #Surrealistcinema #RussianFilm
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Russian director Karen Shakhnazarov's Soviet-era In the Moscow Slums and Zerograd are surreal, absurdist films rich in Impressionistic color.
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The 80s post-disco trash and glamour of "AMERICAN GIGOLO" gets a feature on the Best DVDs/Blu-rays of 2024 @PopMatters. Title available by @ArrowFilmsVideo, @mvdentgroup:
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PopMatters' 30 Best DVDs of 2024 hereby presents a glorious cavalcade, a prestigious panorama, a scintillating smorgasbord of classic films (and one newbie).
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AND...a number of @Criterion titles tops the Best DVDs/Blu-rays of 2024 on @PopMatters' year-end list. Read the feature to check them all out (among other titles) here:
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PopMatters' 30 Best DVDs of 2024 hereby presents a glorious cavalcade, a prestigious panorama, a scintillating smorgasbord of classic films (and one newbie).
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You can read about TWILIGHT (not THAT one, but this excellent, little-known Hungarian mystery) on @PopMatters' Best DVDs/Blu-rays of 2024; title available by @ArbelosFilms:
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PopMatters' 30 Best DVDs of 2024 hereby presents a glorious cavalcade, a prestigious panorama, a scintillating smorgasbord of classic films (and one newbie).
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"Viva La Muerte", "Badits of Orgosolo", "Daiei Gothic", "Tchao Pantin" and "The Shape of Night" top the Best DVDs/Blu-rays of 2024 year-end list, @PopMatters. Titles available by @FilmsRadiance:
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PopMatters' 30 Best DVDs of 2024 hereby presents a glorious cavalcade, a prestigious panorama, a scintillating smorgasbord of classic films (and one newbie).
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Review of Alain Robbe-Grillet's surrealist film "Playing With Fire" @PopMatters; Blu-ray release by @CultEpics and distributed by @mvdentgroup
#AlainRobbeGrillet #JeanLouisTrintignant
Allain Robbet-Gillet’s Playing With Fire Will Burn the Uninitiated ➡️ https://t.co/pYWm9zjaxO Playing With Fire marks a curious effort when considered in the scope of cancel culture today, yet it compels nonetheless. – @MatutinalLife
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Initially dismissed as a film for children, Luigi Comencini's Misunderstood reveals some mature ideas about childhood and family and would sit better with adult audiences. – @MatutinalLife ➡️ https://t.co/5Po95QXtQn
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"Misunderstood" is a bittersweet childhood drama, beautifully photographed, wonderfully acted, and given a fantastic remastered Blu-ray released by @FilmsRadiance. Review available @PopMatters:
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Initially dismissed as a film for children, Misunderstood reveals some mature ideas about childhood and family and would sit better with adult audiences.
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Nothing But a Man, director Michael Roemer’s sobering look at systemic racism in 1960s America is about battling discrimination on an uneven playing field but also about tenaciously preserving friendships and families. – @MatutinalLife ➡️ https://t.co/HGsYCdKXaX
#PMPick
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Film review of the excellent @Criterion release "Nothing But a Man" published @PopMatters:
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Nothing But a Man is about battling discrimination on an uneven playing field but also about tenaciously preserving friendships and families.
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A new tome on the musical culture of goth; review @PopMatters:
John Robb's The Art of Darkness Unburies Goth Music's Beginnings ➡️ https://t.co/1Np0HrHva2 John Robb's massive The Art of Darkness: The History of Goth [@ManchesterUP] unburies an estimable wealth of knowledge of goth music and can sit comfortably beside the works of Greil
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One of Chabrol's best - and based on an excellent novel by Ruth Rendell. Please check out my review of the new @Criterion release @PopMatters:
Claude Chabrol's La Cérémonie Explores Social Class Struggles with Chilling Exactitude ➡️ https://t.co/dkTqEky4ar Filmed under a cool glass of calm and enwrapped in an airy atmosphere, La Cérémonie [@Criterion] makes judicious use of its setting to starkly contrast its warring
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"The elevator always seeks out the floor of the fire and automatically opens and won't shut. These are the warnings that you must forget if you are climbing out of yourself, if you are going to smash into the sky." - Anne Sexton
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“Sentimentalist” is the abuse with which people counter the accusation that they are cruel, thereby implying that to be sentimental is worse than to be cruel, which it isn’t.” ― Brigid Brophy
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“However aware we are that a certain fate cannot be avoided, we cannot help blaming the person who gets that monster to its feet...and leads it into the room.” ― Hugh Fleetwood
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Myself and Michael Barrett complied these titles for the Best DVDs (or Blu-rays, 4K) of 2023 list for @PopMatters. Lots of great, unique titles, a number of them stone-cold classics. Check the list out: @FunCityEdition @mvdentgroup @ArbelosFilms @Criterion @KinoLorber
The 20 Best DVDs of 2023 ➡️ https://t.co/wzYYYcf3AB In our Best #DVDs of 2023 list, along with some classic television, we have selected known treasures and unconventional films to satisfy the discerning cinephile. - @MatutinalLife #BestOf2023
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