favourites are my most recent 5 baggers*
* that are newly watched, reassessed or re-reviewed.
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Fear City 1984
Back to back neo-noirs and this one definitely came off second best next to Altman’s The Long Goodbye.
The latter gets why we want these movies. We want a tough guy so tough he doesn’t fight or have sex or get angry. When life ain’t going his way he just frowns and smokes and makes bitchy jokes. When life is going his way he does the same.
Fear City thinks you gotta have a couple of ripped dudes fighting over pretty ladies. Boring!
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Better Man 2024
A thrilling trip through the chimp art of failure. Robbie’s struggle with fame becomes an uplifting story that affirms the subversive value of the cheeky, playful and stupid: the unserious man.
The devolved ape boy ascends to uber mensch as he learns to embrace the symbolic castration symptomised by his pursuit of the spotlight. Robbie’s journey does not lead him to repress his will to perform and learn to love his private persona, rather he learns to love his obsessive…
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De Humani Corporis Fabrica 2022
“It’s all getting a bit abstract now” - anonymous, scared surgeon pulling out a massive prostate.
We have to delimit! We’re this and not that, otherwise we wouldnt be at all. We are bodies and workers and chatters, otherwise we wouldn’t be anything. This film is suffused with images which remind us that limits are strange things: that to draw a limit is to implicate a thing in what it’s not in a decidedly weird way.Principally of course the…
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