If I asked you to name a western where the characters were all sunburnt and were cast to stock-character type, you would normally be right to think of Sergio Leone’s widescreen epics. To this fine company you should now add the excellent Rango (2011), an anthropomorphic spaghetti western starring an animated chameleon, voiced byContinue reading “On Rango (2011)”
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What Can Spanish Cinema Teach Us?
The label ‘foreign language film’ tends to summon up images of worthy arthouse fare and the repackaging of other people’s culture under the safe prejudiced assumption that cinema is solely the preserve of the English-speaking world. This patronising label unfairly reduces great talent and innovative films to minority interest and novelty. Let’s pick twoContinue reading “What Can Spanish Cinema Teach Us?”
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