Aki Kaursmäki’s Leningrad Cowboys Go America is the reason that for the last 18 years, I have not been able to buy a bag of onions without smiling. The mock heroic road movie was a formative film for me, but it’s not available on DVD in the U.S. Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, [...]
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August Days
Is it ok if I plagiarize my own entry from Worldfilm?
From Spain, Marc Recha’s August Days is one of those quiet, unassuming movies you’re likely to see at festivals and nowhere else. The film concerns two brothers, one of them Recha himself, who take a road trip into the Catalanian hinterlands, where they find [...]
