The KOROVA Theatre

It's funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you viddy them on the screen.

Monday, May 12, 2025

DELIVERANCE (John Boorman, 1972, USA)

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  Mankind’s primal instincts lurk just below the dark mirrored surface of the mind, the animal only temporarily suppressed by Reason and the...
Monday, May 5, 2025

TOKYO SONATA (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2008, Japan)

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  Kenji’s family is a maelstrom of disharmony, the tonal hierarchy dissolving like random notes of a discordant sonata. Writer/Director Kiyo...
Monday, April 14, 2025

A GOOD MARRIAGE (Eric Rohmer, 1982, France)

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  Sabine is more in love with the idea of marriage than the man she proposes to wed. Director Eric Rohmer turns his lens upon a young woman ...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (Luis Buñuel, 1962, Mexico)

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  The Valkyrie’s virginal spirit rises above the tempest of anarchy: as a socialite dinner party comes to an end, the guests inexplicably fi...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

MAN BITES DOG (Remy Belvaux, 1992, Belgium)

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  " When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news. " - John Bogart...
Monday, March 17, 2025

YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH (Francis Ford Coppola, 2007, USA)

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  Smoke and mirrors. Time. Illusion. Duality. Transmigration of the soul. Accelerated decrepitude. Nietzsche’s THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA . Phil...
Sunday, March 2, 2025

ROMAN HOLIDAY (William Wyler, 1953, USA)

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  Joe Bradley is heartbroken and left abandoned, not before the Alter but a Princess’ vacant throne. Princess Ann, played by the beautifully...
Saturday, February 8, 2025

JACKIE BROWN (Quentin Tarantino, 1997, USA)

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  Jackie Brown is always starting over; fearing her middle-aged life has become grounded under the weight of a few ounces of cocaine and $50...
Monday, January 20, 2025

THE GREAT DICTATOR (Charles Chaplin, 1940, USA)

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  Chaplin condemns the Fascist simulacra, machines in the shape men fueled by nationalism, and curses leadership founded on murder and hatre...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (Béla Tarr, 2000, Hungary)

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  Music is the language of the gods…and the gods lie. What begins as a celestial ballet ends in chaos and confusion even though the eclipse ...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? (Mike Nichols, 1966, USA)

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  The pugnacious spirit of Virginia Woolf haunts this viscous drama about the dissolution of reality and the emotional and intellectual wall...
Tuesday, December 24, 2024

RUDOLPH THE RED-NOSED REINDEER (Rankin/Bass, 1964, USA)

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  Hermie and Rudolph must shed the cloak of conformity and fight a desperate battle against their tyrannical oppressor: Santa Claus. Rankin ...
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