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ANTON BITEL
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• Channel 4 Film
• Daily Mirror [UK]
• Eye for Film
• Film International
• Little White Lies
• Movie Gazette
• musicOMH.com

BIOGRAPHY
Dr Anton Bitel was born in Australia in 1970, and has lived in the UK since 1989. Now a father of twins, occasional academic and full-time caffeine junkie, he compensates for a general sense of disgruntlement by moping about in darkened cinemas watching other people's joys and sorrows.
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Total Reviews: 963

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"While Svankmajer's vision may at times be pessimistic, bleak and disturbing, it is also playful, irreverent and devilishly funny." -- Eye for Film
Posted Jul 5, 2007
 
Jan Svankmajer: The Complete Short Films (2007)n/a
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"Sunshine is canny enough to avoid being reducible to the sum of its parts, and finds a perfect balance between claustrophobic thrills and eye-goggling awe." -- musicOMH.com
Posted Jul 2, 2007
 
Sunshine (2007)75%
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"Marrying punishing action set-pieces to an unnerving disaster movie scenario, it grips the viewer with vice-like intensity, while never forgetting to revel in its own amiable absurdity." -- musicOMH.com
Posted Jun 26, 2007
 
Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard (2007)81%
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"Fincher manages the pace brilliantly, making the viewer feel as frustrated, paranoid and, most importantly, driven, as the film's characters." -- musicOMH.com
Posted Jun 12, 2007
 
Zodiac (2007)89%
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"a real-time reconstruction of events on the doomed flight that manages to encapsulate all the anxieties and sorrows of our age." -- Eye for Film
Posted Aug 10, 2007
 
United 93 (2006)91%
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"in Pan's Labyrinth, the world of Ofelia's imagination and the realities of Falangist Spain are two different, ideologically opposed ways of telling the same story - a story of tyranny, resistance and the timeless struggle between good and evil." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Jun 13, 2007
 
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)96%
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"funny, frightening, romantic, nostalgic, moving and grimly fatalistic, it races along, like its central character, with a speed and grace that utterly belies its great size." -- Eye for Film
Posted Jul 10, 2007
 
King Kong (2005)84%
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"a contemplative, almost poetic examination of the proper workings of justice, and an exemplary depiction of a ruined family rebuilt on the foundations of its own humanistic values." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Jun 13, 2007
 
Beyond Hatred (2005)89%
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"Only Kerrigan's previous Clean, Shaven surpasses Keane as a sympathetic study of a man unravelled." -- musicOMH.com
Posted Jun 19, 2007
 
Keane (2004)83%
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10/10
 
Click here to read article -- Movie Gazette
Posted Jan 13, 2004
 
The Five Obstructions (2004)89%
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Posted Oct 28, 2003
 
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)85%
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Posted Oct 28, 2003
 
Spirited Away (2002)97%
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"a haunting, intelligent piece of grand guignol - with a look all of its own" -- Movie Gazette
Posted Oct 28, 2003
 
Fausto 5.0 (2001)n/a
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"Most fascinating of all is the apparent limitlessness of Cimino's megalomania." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Sep 25, 2007
 
The Deer Hunter (1978)90%
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"Gauging the shifting moods of the 1970s, this tale of life and love disrupted by war is as arresting as a bullet to the brain." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Jun 13, 2007
 
The Deer Hunter (1978)90%
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"A timeless, bittersweet carnival of severed roots, disintegrating values, lost innocence and dumbing down. Unmissable! " -- Movie Gazette
Posted Oct 30, 2004
 
La Dolce Vita (1960)98%
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"sees the writer/director well and truly back from the dead and returning to his independent roots, with a small, character-based production that is intelligent, bleak, and at times jarringly funny." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Feb 28, 2008
 
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)60%
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"this litany of human disconnection, misery, frustration and despair... would be an almost unbearably bleak mosaic of our living deaths, were it not for Andersson's profound appreciation of Chaplin's observation that comedy is tragedy seen in long-shot." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Mar 21, 2008
 
You, The Living (2007)100%
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"Spring surely follows winter, but there is no sign of a coming thaw in this bleakly melancholic comedy of manners and mortality." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Jul 13, 2007
 
Private Fears in Public Places (2007)79%
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"like a mutant hybrid spawned from the improbable union of Little Miss Sunshine and Godzilla; for in this family comedy and political satire an unnaturally evolved tadpole just happens to loom (very) large." -- Eye for Film
Posted Jul 9, 2007
 
The Host (2007)92%
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"This superb horror thriller breaks violently into your consciousness, robbing you of all sense of security." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Jun 13, 2007
 
Them (2007)63%
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"This uncategorisable asylum-set ensemble dramedy backs up its extraordinary visual effects with a lot of heart." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Mar 26, 2008
 
I'm A Cyborg (2006)80%
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"he only thing that strikes a false note here is...the final sequence (and a sound heard over the closing credits)... Otherwise a perfect film." -- Eye for Film
Posted Jul 3, 2007
 
Children of Men (2006)92%
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"an intense, disturbing and bleak drama of ecstasy and insanity, all set in a world where, if there is a God at all, it truly requires a leap of faith into the dark to grasp Him." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Jun 15, 2007
 
Requiem (2006)88%
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"this story of magic, madness and metempsychosis will have you feeling like a rabbit trying to puzzle out what exactly is going on as wilder wolves circle and headlights career toward you out of the darkness." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Jun 13, 2007
 
Inland Empire (2006)70%
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"This low-budget comedy-drama may not have the glossiest of coats, but nor is it the dog you might be expecting." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Mar 16, 2007
 
Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006)63%
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"Dress warm for this chilly dissection of the irreconcilable gulf between men and women. Acutely observed, artfully executed, and grimly funny." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Feb 9, 2007
 
Climates (2006)71%
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Posted Jul 13, 2005
 
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things (2006)40%
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Posted Apr 15, 2005
 
In Your Hands (2006)89%
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"a searingly powerful, at times transcendent, examination of a nation's culture, alienated from, and afraid of, itself." -- Eye for Film
Posted Jul 3, 2007
 
Crash (2005)75%
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"Isolation is a claustrophobic, increasingly icky chiller that is just as horrifying for its underlying ideas as for the more visceral shocks that it presents on screen." -- Channel 4 Film
Posted Jun 13, 2007
 
Isolation (2005)67%
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"one disorientingly demented trip through the terrain of 1970s outlaw grindhouse. " -- Movie Gazette
Posted Aug 13, 2005
 
The Devil's Rejects (2005)54%
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Posted May 6, 2005
 
Kingdom of Heaven (2005)39%
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"crams all the madness and perversity of the Third Reich into twelve days in a claustrophobic bunker." -- Movie Gazette
Posted Apr 2, 2005
 
Downfall (2005)91%
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"This intriguing blend of nostalgia, science fiction, and timeless melancholy will still be haunting viewers in 2046 and beyond." -- Movie Gazette
Posted Jan 15, 2005
 
2046 (2005)84%
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Posted Oct 30, 2004
 
Oldboy (2005)82%
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Posted Oct 23, 2004
 
Save The Green Planet! (2005)87%
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Posted Mar 26, 2005
 
The Machinist (2004)73%
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Posted Feb 12, 2005
 
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)52%
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Posted Sep 18, 2004
 
Hero (2004)95%
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Posted Aug 13, 2004
 
A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003)86%
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"A bleak cyber-thriller that bids you to see through the glossy images on the screen's surface. " -- Movie Gazette
Posted May 14, 2004
 
Demonlover (2003)48%
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Posted Mar 21, 2004
 
Fear X (2003)55%
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Posted Nov 14, 2003
 
Taking Sides (2003)77%
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"... furiously paced, full of drama, and as tense as elevator cable ..." -- Movie Gazette
Posted Nov 14, 2003
 
Infernal Affairs (2003)95%
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Posted Oct 28, 2003
 
To Be and To Have (2003)96%
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"Redneck humour + heavy metal video mentality = the future of horror" -- Movie Gazette
Posted Oct 28, 2003
 
House of 1000 Corpses (2003)16%
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Posted Oct 28, 2003
 
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)44%
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"Masterpiece of tormented souls." -- Movie Gazette
Posted Nov 7, 2003
 
Dark Water (2002)71%
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"Greenaway ploughs the familiar landscape of the murder mystery, but plants in it new, exotic fruits all of his own." -- Movie Gazette
Posted Feb 13, 2004
 
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)100%

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