After reading the #NYRB "Shithole Cinema" article (paywalled) a couple of months ago, I was looking forward to #RaduJude's "Kontinental '25". It is now on #BFIPlayer and doesn't disappoint. The disturbing collision between self-regard and real events, and the multiple ways to seek to use others to assuage guilt. After viewing the film, David Ehrlich 's IndieWire review added more appreciation.
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/11/19/shithole-cinema-radu-jude-romania/

https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/movies/kontinental-25-movie-review-radu-jude-1235096944/

Shithole Cinema

In Radu Jude’s Romania, people don’t have a good word to say about the country or its citizens; on the contrary, they curse the place with a vehemence as

The New York Review of Books
Prime Time: Lady Macbeth (2016)

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Now watching Starve Acre on BFI player.

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My brief review of Australian western ‘The Proposition’. Brutal and beautiful watched via #BFIPlayer https://boxd.it/6yPco1
A ★★★★ review of The Proposition (2005)

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Watching 1973 Italian #culthorror film ‘Black Magic Rites’ via the #BFIPlayer
Watching 1990 crime thriller ‘King of New York’ via #BFIPlayer
Watching British 1977 #culthorror movie ‘The Haunting of Julia’ via the #BFIPlayer