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So Unreal review: cyberpunk cinephilia

Amanda Kramer’s latest is a frenetic, six-part nostalgia trip through twenty years of ‘cyberspace cinema’, navigated by the voice of Debbie Harry.

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SXSW 2021 Interview: Kier-La Janisse Talks Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (Exclusive)

SXSW 2021 Interview: Kier-La Janisse Talks Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched (Exclusive)
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The poster for writer-director-producer Kier-La Janisse’s documentary, ‘Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched.’
Cultures around the world have long alternately celebrated, concealed and manipulated their own histories in an attempt to find spiritual resonance in their surroundings. A prime example of society’s efforts to find that awakening came through the rise of paganism in the late 1960s and early 1970s, especially in connection with the era’s wave of feminism, ecological movement and folk horror films. The new documentary, ‘Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched,’ explores the many inspirations, sides and impacts of the folk horror genre, from its initial soar in popularity half a century ago to its enduring legacy in modern culture.

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'Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched' Review: A Diverting Survey of Folk-Horror Cinema and TV

'Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched' Review: A Diverting Survey of Folk-Horror Cinema and TV
'Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched' Review: A Diverting Survey of Folk-Horror Cinema and TV
Kier-La Janisse's documentary provides an alluring international overview of macabre genre films drawn from folklore and superstition.
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Director: Kier-La Janisse
With: Piers Haggard, Lawrence Gordon Clark, Alice Lowe, Robert Eggers, Jonathan Rigby, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Mitch Horowitz, Maisha Wester, Mattie Do, Mariano Baino, Robin Hardy. (English, Portuguese dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 194 MIN.
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“Folk horror” is a term of relatively recent vintage — or at least popularity — that only grows more broad as “Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched” spends three and a quarter hours trying to define it. Still, a slippery thesis doesn’t detract from the pleasures of this documentary from genre scholar and programmer Kier-La Janisse. She draws on alluring clips from more than 100 films, plus myriad interviews, to survey an alternately lurid and surreal cinematic (as well as television) field of mostly rural tales inspired by traditional superstitions and lore.

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