JoRafCinema Newsletter - July 2020

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Dear Cinephiles,

the month of July was as good for Cinema as June was, as we followed three Festivals partly in that month and saw many good movies in and out of those events.
We completed the Far East Film Festival but were in general disappointed by the selection. We liked the predictable Filipino Horror film Sunod, were made ill at ease by the Malaysian / Chinese bullying story Victim(s), and loved the youth Drama Edward from the Philippines as well. The Festival was also the opportunity to discover the 2005 satire The President's Last Bang, much better than the recent revisiting of the same events in The Man Standing Next.
The FEFF was followed by an online Special Issue of the Neuchâtel Fantastic Film Festival, not replacing the 20th edition which is simply postponed to 2021. We found the programming of that Festival excellent, with discoveries like the 80's nostalgic VHYes, the Hungarian vampire story during the Cold War Comrade Drakulich, the Canadian extravagant The Twentieth Century and the French visual feast Blood Machines. Our favorite of the Festival: the American independent Dinner in America which well deserved the Special Issue's award.
Thirdly, we found out that the FANTASPOA Festival which we attended in 2017 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was also taking place online this year. It also has a nice program and the first review we published was for the Documentary A Brief History of Time Travel, but stay tuned in August for more.
Besides Festivals, we enjoyed many movies in different genres, for example the Japanese animated Batman Ninja and the 1978 Horror classic Piranha by Joe Dante. We also liked the first season of the French retro spy-series Au Service de la France.
Among recent releases, we both gave good reviews to Joker with Joaquin Phoenix and Edgard Wright's Baby Driver. Finally, we loved re-living the events leading to the first Moon landing in First Man, and had lots of fun watching Kevin Smith's latest ultra-referential reflection on Cinema in Jay and Silent Bob Reboot.

We expect a much quieter month of August, but at least stay tuned for the reviews of movies seen at the FANTASPOA2020.

Jo&Raf

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