What a beautiful rumination on cinema. This film acts almost as an introspective self-portrait of Angelopolous’ own work, whilst not his final film, it definitely feels like the culmination of years of hard work and experience. It features a lot of his common visual elements: shots of people standing dispersed and still, a statue being air lifted, trains, the past fracturing into the present, borders and lots of fog. In any other film you could argue these proto-references could come…
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Twin Peaks: The Return 2017
Rewatch coincided with my new Twin Peaks tattoo. A happy Peaks-esque accident Lynch would be proud of.
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Doctor Who: Pyramids of Mars 1975
I may not like the child-oriented direction of RTD’s new era but if he’s done one thing right it’s getting people to go back and watch this amazing gem of 70’s Who. I implore anyone watching this for the first time to really explore the classic show. Stories like Remembrance, Deadly Assassin, Ghost Light, Enlightenment, there’s so many great stories in the Classic era that trump anything the new show tries. As you look back you also realise that the…
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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1 2011
Film was so bad i had to throw in the towel and abandon the marathon. Got in at 11pm and made it out at 8am. It defeated me. There are very few things in life that I can say have fully conquered me but this is one of them. I thought I was ready. I brought what I thought was enough food, what I thought was enough red-bull.
1am hit and the first film was done and I was on…
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