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ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #1 – Petite Maman

Anna McKibbin
December 31, 2021
Analysis, Features, Top 10
As Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) sleeps securely in her mother’s arms, a bright circle of light skittishly bounces across the door, its glow illuminating the murky shape of a key. Nelly and Marion (Gabrielle Sanz)...
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ORWAV’S Top 20 Films of 2021: #2 – The Green Knight

Carmen Paddock
December 31, 2021
Analysis, Features, Top 10
Recent cinema has been marked by its reckoning with myths and legends: some based in truth, some overt fabrications, some lost to time, some painfully traceable. Spencer tackles the Royal Family; Dune brings a...
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ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #3 – Limbo

Anahit Behrooz
December 31, 2021
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There is something deliriously off-kilter about Limbo, Ben Sharrock’s absurdist comedy about a group of asylum seekers awaiting processing on a remote Scottish island. Nothing is ever quite right. In its...
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ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #4 – Another Round

David Brake
December 31, 2021
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“To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.” In The Simpsons episode titled ‘Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment’, after battling humourless lawman Rex Banner, Homer Simpson...
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ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #5 – The Power of the Dog

Tom Bond
December 31, 2021
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A darkened interior frames a lone man striding across a dusty plain. It’s one of the most well-worn images in cinema, and it provides a powerful visual shorthand for the themes of any Western: domesticity vs...
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ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #6 – Nomadland

Scott Wilson
December 31, 2021
Analysis, Features, Top 10
Best Picture. Best Director. Best Actress. Winning over 100 awards in total, Nomadland’s success at the Oscars may have seemed, ultimately, inevitable, but there was still a surge of warranted joy when...
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ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #7 – C’mon C’mon

Scott Wilson
December 31, 2021
Analysis, Features, Top 10
In a conversation with musician David Byrne, director Mike Mills said it’s his natural urge to make every film feel like the chorus of a song. Choruses are often the zeniths of a song. A wondrous combination...
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ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #8 – First Cow

Louise Burrell
December 31, 2021
Analysis, Features, Opinion
With an outpouring of festival and critics’ awards over the last 18 months, it seemed almost certain that Kelly Reichardt’s stunning First Cow would garner a handful of Academy Awards nominations in early...
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ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #9 – Spencer

Calum Baker
December 30, 2021
Analysis, Features
In its interminable wardrobing, lavish setting and populist pro-Princess pitch, Spencer would seem to perfectly embody what Christopher Hitchens once labelled the “kitsch iconography” that surrounds its...
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ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #10 – Sound of Metal

Rachel Brook
December 30, 2021
Analysis, Features, Top 10
The best films of 2021 marshalled all of the techniques of cinema to tell their stories in ways that could only be achieved within the medium of film. The Father mastered editing and production design, using...
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ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2021: #20 to #11

David Brake
December 30, 2021
Analysis, Features, Top 10
Well, 2021 wasn't the improvement we all deserved after a dire 2020. Perhaps that was just wishful thinking. I sincerely hope that you and your family are safe and well, as we prepare to enter year three of...
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A Beginner’s Guide To… Douglas Sirk

Joseph Bullock
June 6, 2021
A Beginner's Guide To..., Analysis, Features
Douglas Sirk is a tough sell in a cynical age. Perhaps he would be in any. His plots are often shallow and seeped in wish-fulfilment; the performances are overwrought and slightly archaic; his sets, despite...
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Olympia Dukakis: The Older Woman’s Older Woman

Alex Goldstein
May 3, 2021
Analysis, Features, One Off
“I always played older,” Olympia Dukakis once told the New York Times. “I think it was the voice.” From 40 years old, Dukakis was playing mothers of grown children and elder stateswomen - and...
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Todd Stephens, Udo Kier and Linda Evans on Swan Song

Rafaela Sales Ross
March 28, 2021
Features, Interview, One Off
In the realm of great storylines, “A formerly flamboyant hairdresser takes a long walk across a small town to style a dead woman's hair” certainly hits the jackpot. Throw in two contrasting legends in the...
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Why First Cow Was The Biggest Oscar Snub This Year

Louise Burrell
March 27, 2021
Analysis, Features, Opinion
With an outpouring of festival and critics awards over the last 12 months, it seemed almost certain that Kelly Reichardt’s stunning First Cow would garner a handful of Academy Awards nominations. But in a...
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