Did you watch a film for Halloween? From The Adams Family to Coraline and Scream to The Exorcist (for the hardier souls), the options are endless for 31 October movie nights. A trip to the cinema last week alone offered a plethora of horrors, in the shapes of: Happy Death Day, Jigsaw and The Ritual.
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For his latest snippet of understudied America, Sean Baker has switched coasts; he’s travelled from the orange sunsets of Los Angeles in Tangerine the Orange County for The Florida Project. He’s also gone from filming on an iPhone to production in 35mm, with a budget twenty times bigger. A technological leap this might be, The Florida Project remains a treasure by virtue of its simplicity and, vibrantly cinematic, authenticity.
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