It meant the world to me that I was able to give a quick introduction for Roma and share the experience of watching it again with everyone!
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Sandwiched between his equally autobiographical films, The Clowns and Amarcord, Roma centralises Fellini’s vision; however, at the cost of the narrative and dramatic elements that compelled his earlier, celebrated works, namely 8 1/2 and La Dolce Vita.
Roma is just wild. Every image is so theatrical, gaudy and overlain that it is…

The images of a calendar are inherently fantastical, distracting for only a moment before we are reminded how fast time is ing. The beautiful Armenian churches are separated from their history of worship; to Egoyan's photographer, they exist to embellish a landscape. His images are fodder for blank stares at his empty calendar, waiting for his next foreign call girl. 

The photographer's memories are played out right in front of his eyes through his camcorder footage, the textural quality of VCR…