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Mysterious Object at Noon 2000
My favourite Apichatpong or simply the only one I've seen in an proper cinema in the afternoon? That's the right way to do it. I think if someone told me that they liked watching these films often, or regularly, I would find it difficult to believe them. I find a difficulty in submitting to their slow time and loose construction. But the door is on the hinge. This time it swung open.
Where are we? At the bubbling source of…
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Thief 1981
Thief (1981) is so much better than Heat (1995), not only for omitting the disgusting and unnecessary Waingro sequences—scenes whose only function is "proving the bad guys are bad" and inevitably the proof is violence against working women. but that is an afterthought. the real reason this film is better is because it has a different view of commitment.
In Heat, the characters are almost "gay for crime" or for each other, the model is erotic. but in Thief, there…
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Stress Positions 2024
Cynical bottle-drama à la Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (which I loved) or the Boys in the Band (which I hated). All three of these films have a problem which we might also recognize from the structure of fad diets: are we weak or are we wrong?
For example you could say that Terry (John Early) has his personal and political hangups in absolutely the wrong place, but he’s also a “loser.” Karla (Theda Hammel) has some really nasty theories…
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Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World 2023
Simply the most top G shit imaginable. I've watched it twice now. In some sense this is a continuation of Jude's concern with the production, manipulation, and miscarriage of images. In "The Happiest Girl in the World" it's an advertisement, in "I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians" it's the historical re-enactment of a massacre, in "the Potemkinists" it's a monument. Here it's a safety video and an attempt to whitewash the image of an…
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