Think Brecht had a point about how you should resist the urge to do shakespeare in modern dress, and i also reckon something about Shakespeare as cinema never q lands (an art form of language reproduced in a basically illiterate genre) but still, great cast, some great performances and some indelible images (the knife protruding from RDJ like one of the chestbusters from alien, before cutting to the toy train set).
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Lovers Rock 2020
For all the lovers and the rockers! Rewatching this, it's exactly as good as I remember. It reminds me, weirdly, of Boyhood - both are arts of threats raised then (largely) dispersed, upsetting cinematic expectations of catastrophe. Not saying nothing bad happens in Lover's Rock, but that it works to evoke bad twists (eg., the endless sirens on the soundtrack, following on from Mangrove) which then don't materialise. Thinks that's what the man carrying the cross symbolises - when you…
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Small Things Like These 2024
Loved this, made me think about the long history of forced labour within capitalism (which continues with the prison industrial complex), and the dickens references worked because the magdalen laundries were really workhouses at their core.
Reading about them I discovered this story that, instead of just being laundry, at one convent the prisoners were hired out to hasbro to package games like buckaroo, ker-plunk and mouse-trap. (The same article suggests, rather darkly, that the rise of the washing machine was more…
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