Alternate Takes

The dual-review film criticism site: first a spoiler-free review, then an in-depth Alternate Take

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⚡️ “Alternate Takes at Berlinale 2019”
Collecting Simon Ramshaw's coverage of the 2019 Berlinale International Film Festival
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From the #ATArchive: Isabel Rhodes re-evaluates Stars Wars Episodes I-III in the light of the series' critical comeback with The Force Awakens

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@real_meaning Hi Anna! We’re volunteer-run so are unable to pay contributors at this point in time. We entirely understand if that affects your decision to submit to us 🙂

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We're always on the lookout for new contributors. If you'd like to write for Alternate Takes, please reach out to us at [email protected]

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Fresh from @FrightFest 2019, James C. Taylor (@tayloredchatter) explores how contemporary issues are being explored within current genre cinema in this festival report.

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And you can read it here!: https://t.co/6kgs1iVdpW

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"a treatise on the impossibility of telling a truth that isn’t your own"

Simon Ramshaw reviews THE SOUVENIR ahead of his upcoming Alternate Take on the film.

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Joanna Hogg’s THE SOUVENIR is now in general release in the UK. Today we’re sharing Simon Ramshaw’s first impression of the film following its European premiere at Berlinale (with an updated longer review to come).

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"Coogler has proven himself as a filmmaker whose primary concern when deciding how to shoot a scene appears to be what is most appropriate for the action of the story."

Joshua Schulze (@the_otherground) on Ryan Coogler's uses of the long take.

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"we cut quite suddenly between moments of extreme violence and moments of domesticity, never quite able to settle in either space."

Megan Porter's (@MegLily) Alternate Take on WIDOWS

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"By imagining the very worst that humanity has the potential to become, they serve the very useful purpose of giving us a variety of specific futures to actively avoid."

Catherine Lester (@CineFeline) on dystopian narratives on screen.

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"Us prefers to foreground connections between the respective eras of Reagan and Trump in its suggestion of how the past influences the present, yet its iconography of incarceration is deeply historically rooted."

Claire Jesson (@jesson_claire) on US

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"these films locate the postmodern irony of their times not only in the filmmaking, but also in the characters themselves"

Jim Holden on the blending of humour and horror in the SCREAM franchise #ATArchive
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"Critics and audiences often have a hard time figuring out Anderson’s sense of humour, since it revolves [...] around a drily delivered sense of bathos rather than punchlines or pantomime"

Tom Steward on the humour of THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL #ATArchive
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For May's delve into the #ATArchive we're revisiting our criticism on comedy, beginning with Matt Denny's Alternate Take on BAD NEIGHBOURS
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ICYMI: Our Alternate Take on Jordan Peele's Us!
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Claire Jesson returns to Jordan Peele's Us, unpacking its recurring motifs
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Claire Jesson reviews Jordan Peele's US - with further insights to follow in her forthcoming Alternate take!
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@alternatetakes editor Josh Schulze ( @the_otherground ) has just had an article published on the films of Bong Joon-ho, which can be read here!
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See also: our extended analysis on Bong's newest film, OKJA: https://t.co/Nhn8Biewvl