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Photo of James Merendino

James Merendino

“I always wanted to make movies. That or Botany. I got my start making Lord Of The Rings in the forest and hills behind my house when I was 11. All shot on Super 8.”

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    IVANSXTC

    BERNARD ROSE United States, 2000

    A first-wave adopter of digital filmmaking in the early ‘00s, Bernard Rose (Candyman) took the Dogme 95 movement as inspiration for this corrosive Hollywood satire. A mournfully romantic adaptation of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Ivansxtc mounts a searing reckoning with ego and mortality.

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