Primal Screen first published by VODzilla.co Documentarian Rodney Ascher likes to explore the nexus between frightening media and our own haunted unconscious. He is perhaps best known for his feature-length Room 237 (2012) which focused on the hermeneutic overexuberance which some individuals have obsessively applied to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) – and while his follow-up,…
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Magic Magic (2013)
Review first published by Sight & Sound, May 2014 Review: There’s Alicia (Juno Temple), on the edge of a precipice, about to leap into the water (or perhaps fall onto the rocks) below. She is frozen, terrified, in suspense. Now we see her – and now we don’t. Like so many key scenes in Magic…