RIP Clarence Fok. Your film was ludicrous and horny and very fun.
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Zardoz 1974
Proof – if it were needed – that there’s no contradiction between a film being be absolutely deranged and crushingly boring. Also manages to pull off being utterly obsessed with sex and yet one of the least sexy films ever made.
Rewatched as a late and regrettable addendum to my Oz season.
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The Principles of Lust 2003
This hasn’t dissuaded me from my opinion that Penny Woolcock is one of the UK’s most interesting directors (one of our few interesting directors) but, as with everything else of hers I’ve seen, it was too flawed to get my wholehearted approbation. The idea of an opposition between safe domesticity and living for the moment strikes me as similar to the opposition between heart and mind – it’s obviously in some sense useful (or at least appealing), because it gets…
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Milwaukee, Minnesota 2003
This film is an absolute piece of shit, and if I hadn’t been sitting on the wrong end of an aisle in NFT 2 I would have seriously considered walking out. It melds the two most overdone genres of US indie cinema, the quirky flyover-states comedy, exemplified in the festival by The Station Agent (and probably Northfork), and the low-budget who-can-you-trust thriller, executing both in a decidedly half-arsed way. On top of that, it has one of the worst mentally disabled…
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