My favourite, most surreal screening of them all. It was earlier this year, in January, by our calendar but this that I’m about to describe exists in whatever Tarkovsky’s idea of Time is.
Stalker’s a meditative sci-fi film, about a room in a deadly wasteland called The Zone, where your innermost desires are granted. Getting to it through The Zone, extraterrestrial in nature and hostile to human life, is another matter. You hire Stalkers to guide you safely through its dangers.…
It begins with bare feet on asphalt and a Christ-like figure before speeding headlights. And it ends with the apocalypse. A purifying fire, uncontainable, accompanied by an otherworldly wheeze - the breath of a very sick god - that wipes all trace of humanity from the planet.
That’s what you get when leftwing filmmakers, in McCarthy’s America, adapt a rightwing book: “I wrote it fast because I had contempt for it.” The plot makes no sense because it’s just an…
Well, I’ve already reviewed this one here… but this screening needs a special mention just for its location in The Hidden Theatre - filled to the brim with the most colourful furniture and the comfortablest sofas - and for Rewind Cinema, an independent, boutique cinema adored by the community: I must’ve watched at least a dozen movies here and it was packed every single time.
Plus, as I understand it - though my eyes do tend to get glassy when suffering history lessons…
“That's my mom's most favorite piece!”
If the previous feature, The Princess Bride, didn’t have a shortage of perfect breasts, The Goonies focuses more on perfect cocks. (And I’m not even talking about One-Eyed Willy here!)
Sean Astin’s the same height as in The Return of the King and just as heroic: finding pirate treasure, saving his family home, and helping his older brother (Josh Brolin) get laid. I’d go on for a bit more but there’s a Wim Wenders double feature…
Ever since the invention of the movies, there have been five movies rated the most passionate, the most pure. This one leaves them all behind. That’s why Letterboxd only has four favourites. They’re the four left behind. It would be absolutely, totally, and in all other ways inconceivable to put The Princess Bride on the same list as any other movie!
If someone says The Princess Bride isn’t one of the greatest and most quotable movies of all time, well, I…
“I feel like something bad is going to happen to me. I feel like something bad has happened. It hasn't reached me yet but it's on its way.”
Alice Palmer disappears while swimming with her family at a dam in the Victorian town of Ararat, and is later found drowned. The film follows a fake-documentary format, with interviews of her family, friends, snippets of police interviews, and news broadcasts, seamlessly tied in with dramatisation.
If ever there’s a film that’s…
