Screened at UPP: Q&A with Fabrice Aragno
For a while now i’ve dreamt of experiencing Godard in the cinema, the small screen cannot do it justice and the home projector nor suffices. Now it’s been a year; i’ve heard of Scenarios for a while and dreamt of a chance to see it one way or another and sitting at home, amidst an exam, amidst a plan I see a chance to see it; I buy it anyways, i cancel it…
I left Iran in 2011, 13 years ago and since then I would only visit it every 3-4 years, each visit becomes more exhausting and by the most recent of ones; almost 2 months ago, it’s lost almost all of what it had, the magic has almost completely gone and whilst people are fighting back, women are finally breaking free, the country is dead, it’s gone and it’s been gone for quite a while. I think that’s where the analogy…
it’s pretty cool that when your 1-13 you watch people butcher disabilities everyday and don’t blink an eye, then you grow a frontal lobe and watch forest gump and the water boy and it feels like the worlds burning in-front of you. I’ll tell you what though, this is better than forest gump by miles and that’s my two cents - Adam Sandler is one of the most renowned if not greatest dadaists out there, his films don’t exist, they…
You’ll find a interesting phenomenon with all of Frank Zappa works but namely his directed projects where one could easily describe these works as psychedelic - the “hilarity” comes that Zappa is one of those rare rock stars who’s got a firm anti drug stance - it’s then accounting both that you do begin to notice a strange occurrence, more-so in projects where he’s more control, differing to this as Bickford takes the helm quite often - you’ll find a…
you forget how much of a shithole the UK truly is until people like Andrea Arnold and Alan Clarke remind you - when i migrated here I lived in Glasgow first and i share nothing but terrible memories; the greatest of those being romanticised memories of how terrible it was; somehow here on a rewatch Andrea Arnold makes Glasgow worst than it already is - it’s dystopian; physically makes me sick to look at all together
Something of this truly got under my skin - for one certainly all points to Robbie Williams being so little of a talented intellectual that for the promotion of this creature on several times would it be described by Robbie as “their attempt to spice up the biopic” - that itself says it all, at least Robbie Williams is clueless enough to admit it how frightening of a corporate product this is but it’s only as you watch this film…
