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Angelos Koutsourakis

Angelos Koutsourakis's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Micmacs (2009) 71% 5/10 EDIT “The real problem with Micmacs is that it does not outdo its comparisons” – PopMatters Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Antichrist (2009) 53% EDIT “von Trier does not hesitate to engage into a dialogue and thus experiment with mainstream cinema, in order to reshape the relationship between film production and reception...we can see Antichrist as a film that thematises the medium itself...” – PopMatters Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Dogtooth (2009) 94% EDIT “By systematically abusing the language system, Dogtooth confronts the postmodern speculative dichotomy between reality and fiction.” – PopMatters Feb 23, 2024 Full Review The Edge of the World (1937) 100% 8/10 EDIT “The Edge of the World has a very loose narrative structure and in many respects the Scottish landscape becomes the major protagonist at the expense of dramaturgy and character portrayal.” – PopMatters Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Bronco Bullfrog (1970) 100% 7/10 EDIT “Bronco Bullfrog poses one of the most fundamental challenges in the medium. The actors are in the position of performing for the camera and performing themselves at the same time...” – PopMatters Feb 23, 2024 Full Review A Separation (2011) 99% 7/10 EDIT “Equally important is that the film avoids oversimplistic condemnations of the Iranian regime, showing that oppression can be propagated unconsciously, even by those who are at the bottom of society.” – PopMatters Feb 23, 2024 Full Review The Lady and the Beard (1931) EDIT “It’s certainly a must have box-set for libraries and the educational institutions.” – PopMatters Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth? (1932) EDIT “It’s this abstraction, this refusal to subordinate all the parts to the whole, which brings to the fore the comic aspects of the socially ‘obvious’.” – PopMatters Feb 23, 2024 Full Review I Flunked But... (1930) EDIT “Despite the fact that each film has a concrete story-line, the director’s modus operandi allows a certain degree of poetic formal abstraction to enter the mise-en-scène.” – PopMatters Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Days of Youth (1929) EDIT “Using minimal camera movements, Ozu’s camera draws equal attention to the dramatic action enacted by the characters and the environment they are placed in equally balancing social awareness and a self-reflexive poetic modernist style.” – PopMatters Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Farewell From Yesterday (1966) 9/10 EDIT “Yesterday’s Girl raises issues of our relation to the historical past and this makes it timely...” – PopMatters Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Poto and Cabengo (1980) EDIT “Gorin puts forward the conjecture that language is not the neutral interpretation of the world, but a social construction, per se.” – PopMatters Feb 23, 2024 Full Review Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972) EDIT “Drawing upon Bertolt Brecht’s dictum, it aimed at producing a film which would not simply entertain, but would make the public perceive the historicity of the world they live in and eventually change it.” – PopMatters Feb 22, 2024 Full Review Routine Pleasures (1986) EDIT “Gorin seems to imply that these detailed recreations in the model landscapes signified a willingness to freeze time and history and provide those involved with a sense of historical closure and safety from the workings of history.” – PopMatters Feb 22, 2024 Full Review Sátántangó (1994) 100% 9/10 EDIT “Satantango is about a collective farm in a village which is taken by Irimias and Petrina...again, formal experimentation, such as uninterrupted time images predominate over cause and effect narration.” – PopMatters Feb 22, 2024 Full Review Kárhozat, (Damnation) (1988) 94% EDIT “Tarr is very much concerned with getting closer to people and society by focusing on aspects of life that might have no dramatic intensity. His realism is a very distinctive type of realism...” – PopMatters Feb 22, 2024 Full Review Almanac of Fall (1984) 100% EDIT “This is one of the few films by Tarr which is shot in colour. Excessive mise-en-scène prevails over story-development and the director manages brilliantly to politicise the narrative without bringing a political subject matter tout court.” – PopMatters Feb 21, 2024 Full Review Faces (1968) 85% 10/10 EDIT “One of the American Independent cinema masterpieces...” – PopMatters Feb 21, 2024 Full Review Shadows (1958) 100% 10/10 EDIT “Pure reproduction is not what interests Cassavetes and his films demand a more productive audience which is not content with consuming, but with producing meaning, too.” – PopMatters Feb 21, 2024 Full Review Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) 91% EDIT “If the theater frame story in Birdman plays a self-reflexive role, this is nothing but a manifestation of Hollywood's need to return back to its narrative roots.” – PopMatters Feb 21, 2024 Full Review La La Land (2016) 91% EDIT “The melancholy in this film's musical sequences serves as commentary on cinema's bygone capacity to produce a unique kind of magic.” – PopMatters Feb 21, 2024 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% EDIT “The Zone of Interest's key argument that the banal bourgeois dream of happiness and prosperity within the family unit relies on the erasure of uncomfortable truths and realities of violence...” – PopMatters Feb 21, 2024 Full Review
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