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Dear Cinephiles,
months came and went and you may have wondered what happened with our Newsletter? Well the answer is that we have been pretty busy with other things (exploratory travel to Mars, cultural journey around Japan, professional move to Chile) as you can tell for the very low number of reviews posted between February and June.
As promised in the latest Newsletter of January, we wrote a report on the Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival giving all the hints on the new fantastic movies coming this year. In February we have seen few movies but some excellent ones like the surprising war movie Fury and the historical biopic on the McCarthyism Trumbo. Two other movies that are somehow cult: Jodorowsky's Dune for its insight on the history of cinema and Arts in general, and Les garcons et Guillaume, à table! for its modernity in the France that fought for gender equality.
As preparation to our trip to Japan two Animes can be noticed: The Wind Rises by the famous Studio Ghibli and Kakurenbo by the promising team of YamatoWorks. Of course it was also not possible to avoid the very good The Hateful Eight by Tarantino and the deceiving comedy by the Coen Brothers Hail, Caesar!.
Noticeable recent movies reviewed in the following months include the amazingly emotional Room, the authentic Grüße aus Fukushima, Eddie the Eagle with Hugh Jackman, the Danish Krigen about the consequences of War, the offbeat Super-hero movie Deadpool, the well-executed and realistic The Martian with Matt Damon, The Big Short about the 2008 financial crisis, the French Chocolat with Omar Sy and the Black Comedy The Nice Guys with Russel Crowe and a surprising Ryan Gosling.
Only a few older movies were seen: Sam Raimi's classic Army of Darkness and the French dramatic comedy Les Choristes, but in contrast we reviewed no less than 12 seasons of TV-series, indicating a change in the what JoRafCinema watches. Noticeable series include the great thrilling Narcos, the cult comedy Kaamelott, the original Gotham, and reviewed in July the first season of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and the three first of Star Wars - The Clone Wars.
In July we came back with a vengeance and all-time records for the number of movies (53) and of clicks (> 1700). This is partially due to the fact that we found the time to watch more movies, post pending reviews of what we saw in the previous months, and go to two festivals: The Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival and the Nippon Connection in Frankfurt. A report on the first one was posted and one of the second is in preparation.
The highlights of the upcoming releases shown at the NIFFF are the Italian super-hero movie Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot, the Thriller Detour by Christopher Smith, The Norge disaster flick The Wave and the hilarious comedy by Alex de la Iglesia Mi Gran Noche. We also enjoyed the 1985 Cuban animated ¡Vampiros en la Habana! shown as part of a retrospective on Genre cinema in Latin American, and John Carpenter's Christine in a retrospective to honor the director, present at the festival to give a Live concert. The highlights of the Nippon Connection are the excellent The Man who was eaten and the dramatic Being Good.
In addition to festival movies, in July we could recommend the French Dramatic Comedy Rosalie Blum with Kyan "Bref" Khojandi, the tense Thriller Eye in the Sky, the latest Nicolas Winding Refn The Neon Demon and the utopic Captain Fantastic with Viggo Mortensen. We got to review Kevin Smith's first movie Clerks, and amateurs of Genre cannot miss the short film Kung Fury freely available on Internet.
In August, watch out for our article about JoRafCinema's fourth anniversary!
Jo&Raf
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