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This week’s Short Cut is a look at not only a classic but also a truly epic film experience: 1939’s Gone With the Wind (GWTW). There has...
Fiona Craughwell
Feb 5, 20233 min read
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"Do you regret being with me?" Capturing love in Happy Together
Wong Kar-Wai will always be one of my favourite filmmakers of all time. Few manage to capture and create such poetic yet relatable...
Fiona Craughwell
Nov 20, 20223 min read
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I'm Coming Back For Everything: Why Every Scene Matters
It’s time for Short Cut and this edition focuses on David Fincher’s 2010 semi-true story The Social Network (TSN). The film follows Mark...
Fiona Craughwell
Sep 4, 20223 min read
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"I'm gonna break through or somebody gonna break through to me": Venerability in Precious
This edition of Short Cut looks at Lee Daniels’s critically acclaimed Precious (2009), which won two Oscars, a BAFTA and was nominated...
Fiona Craughwell
Jul 25, 20225 min read
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"Momma that's the first time I stopped hugging first": A wonderful tribute to a complex relationship
Apologies for the hiatus. It was out of my control, unfortunately, but we should be back on track now. This edition of the ‘Short Cut’...
Fiona Craughwell
Jul 3, 20225 min read
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You Can't Just Die; A Moment Of Grief In Manchester By The Sea
My most sincere apologies to my loyal reader for my absence. I will do my very best to ensure it never happens again. Anyway, I am back,...
Fiona Craughwell
May 8, 20224 min read
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Feels like I'm knockin' on heaven's door: Finding unexpected poignance in violence.
This week’s ‘Short Cut’ is from Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (PGABTK), and what I like to call the ‘Knocking On Heaven’s Door’ scene....
Fiona Craughwell
Mar 27, 20224 min read
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"Of course it's dark, it's a suicide note": Anderson and all of his mastery.
For the second instalment of the newly appointed ‘Short Cut’, we will be looking to Wes Anderson’s cult classic The Royal Tenebaums...
Fiona Craughwell
Feb 13, 20225 min read
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You notice things if you pay attention
Thanks to the input of others, I have finally come up with a name for this section, so welcome to Short Cut. For those of you that missed...
Fiona Craughwell
Jan 23, 20224 min read
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A Premier: "Always the years between us, always the years. Always, the love. Always, the hours"
Queue the fanfare! I have decided to start a new section of the blog. Move over Fi’s Favourites; there is a new kid in town. I have yet...
Fiona Craughwell
Dec 5, 20215 min read
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