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"a beautifully, achingly sad film where horror and sci-fi merely modulate those feelings which it is hard for us to confront directly": Al White's STARFISH (2018) is a genre-paved journey through grief. #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2020/04/11/starfish-2018/
Starfish (2018) - Projected Figures

A.T. White's beautiful, sad STARFISH uses apocalyptic genre tropes as an expressive tool for the isolating, dissociative processes of grief.

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56 Roy Andersson-like tableaux encompassing all of (Icelandic) society: Rúnar Rúnarsson's ECHO (BERGMÁL, 2019) #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2020/12/24/echo-bergmal-2019/
Echo (Bergmál) (2019) - Projected Figures

Rúnar Rúnarsson's ECHO (BERGMÁL) offers 56 resonant snapshots of life at the end of the year and of the world

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Mediapocalypse: THE SIGNAL (2007) "asks if there is ever any real escape short of simply switching off – which is harder than it sounds with a film as mesmerising, astonishing and irresistible as this" #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2013/07/10/the-signal-2012
The Signal (2007) - Projected Figures

Like the mysterious transmission to which its title refers, THE SIGNAL gets right into your brain, manipulating your desires, fears and hopes

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"It is as though the future is already inscribed in the present, and the past - whether Oscar's personal history, or America's ugly tradition of racial injustice - proves difficult to shake": Ryan Coogler's FRUITVALE STATION (2013) #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2014/06/06/fruitvale-station-2013
Fruitvale Station (2013) - Projected Figures

The feature debut of Ryan Coogler, FRUITVALE STATION is a chronicle of a death foretold, celebrating an individual's efforts to do better even as it laments his - and his nation's - difficulties in moving on.

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"a tragic character study of one man's flight from society, reality and himself": Sarah Adina Smith's elegantly enigmatic BUSTER'S MAL HEART (2016) #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2017/05/24/busters-mal-heart-2016
Buster's Mal Heart (2016) - Projected Figures

Sarah Adina Smith's elegantly enigmatic BUSTER'S MAL HEART is a tragic character study of one man's flight from society, reality and himself.

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Deliverance, Australian style: in Damien Power’s feature debut KILLING GROUND (2016), history repeats. #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2018/01/13/killing-ground-2016
Killing Ground (2016) - Projected Figures

In Damien Power's feature debut KILLING GROUND, history keeps repeating itself, as a young couple's harrowing ordeal at a remote bushland campsite resonates with older colonial horrors.

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"Here, it is cinema itself which is the phantom carriage, taking us on a journey that can divert, horrify and depress – but also enlighten and improve": Victor Sjöström's THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (KÖRKARLEN, 1921) #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2020/12/25/the-phantom-carriage-korkarlen-1921/
The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) (1921) - Projected Figures

Victor Sjöström's influential apocalyptic end-of-year allegory THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (KÖRKARLEN) is both ghost story and morality tale

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"parochial alien invasion comedy on New Year’s Eve, 2014 in the lower half of the Welsh one-street village of Cwmtwrch": Peter Stray's CANARIES (aka ALIEN PARTY CRASHERS, 2017) #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2019/03/11/alien-party-crashers-aka-canaries-2017
Canaries (aka Alien Party Crashers) (2017) - Projected Figures

In Peter Stray's feature debut, the horror comedy CANARIES (aka ALIEN PARTY CRASHERS), Cwntwrch, Wales becomes the epicentre of a massive alien invasion.

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"an apocalyptic farce where New Year’s Eve might also be the End of Days": Caye Casas & Alberto Pintó’s KILLING GOD (MATAR A DIOS, 2017) #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2019/06/02/killing-god-matar-a-dios-2017/
Killing God (Matar a Dios) (2017) - Projected Figures

Caye Casas and Alberto Pintó's feature debut KILLING GOD is an apocalyptic farce where New Year's Eve might also be the End of Days.

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New Year’s (f)Eve(r) dream: Kirill Serebrennikov's sick trip PETROV'S FLU (PETROVY Y GRIPPE, 2021) rings the generational changes on Russian history. #NewYearsEveFilms https://projectedfigures.com/2023/01/05/petrovs-flu-petrovy-y-grippe-2021
Petrov's Flu (Petrovy y Grippe) (2021) - Projected Figures

New Year's (f)Eve(r) dream: Kirill Serebrennikov's sick trip PETROV'S FLU rings the generational changes on Russian history

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