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Tag: detective film

The Maddening Mystery of Dogra Magra

  By Olga Tchepikova-Treon June 1, 2025 June 1, 2025 BLEAK WEEK
A light-skinned Asian man with short dark hair in a white robe is holding on to the bars of an ornamental window places on the wall of a dark room with faded walls and a minimally equipped bed placed on the left side of the frame. His face signals devastation.

| Ryan Sanderson | Dogra Magra (Toshio Matsumoto, 1988) is a detective story the same way that Radiohead’s King of Limbs is a dance album. Many of the pieces are there, but they’re arranged in a way that will infuriate some and perplex many more. It left me surfing through doctoral theses on… Continue reading

Tagged   detective film, Japanese cinema, Toshio Matsumoto

From Roses to Dogra: Speculating Toshio Matsumoto’s Bleak Cinematic Journey

  By Olga Tchepikova-Treon June 1, 2025 June 1, 2025 BLEAK WEEK
The young man wakes up on the floor of the mental hospital.

| Dan Howard | When was the last time you had a really messed up dream? Did you want to just shake it off and forget the dream, or did it pique your curiosity? In the case of both avant-garde and bleak storytelling, it’s speculated that those who are drawn towards… Continue reading

Tagged   detective film, Japanese cinema, Toshio Matsumoto

Waiting for Something to Happen: György Fehér’s Twilight

  By Finn Odum November 10, 2023 November 17, 2023 Slow Cinema

|Luke Mosher| György Fehér’s Twilight (1990) opens with an aerial shot over the forested Hungarian mountain Csóványos while an ambient song drones in the background like the hum of an airplane. On the ground below, two dark figures ride in the back… Continue reading

Tagged   detective film, Drama, Hungarian film, kate bush, violence against children
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