One of my all-time favourite comedies, and I usually parse its central thesis as; restriction equals excess, excess equals apathy. A simple equation aligned with the seismic changes of the sexual revolution and the new world, post pill. But on this viewing I couldn't help noticing all the very obvious and deliberate shots of maids, waiters, etc; the serving class. In fact, the baffled waiter at the start of the film is bookended by a room service waiter in the…
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Children of the Corn 1984
I was quite high when I watched this film and it sent me down a fairly disturbing rabbit hole. I put myself in Burt's shoes and started doing the math to figure out how many children I could potentially dispatch if my life, and the life of my partner depended on it. After all, Burt has a knife and by my count there's only about 10 actual teenagers, the rest are all children. Malachai seems to be the biggest and…
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Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood 2019
A film that just gets better and better every time you watch it. And on this occasion I watched it in the perfect circumstances, at the Astor on 35mm, having just read the novelisation. The novelisation elucidates so many layers. Most of the criticism I see levelled at this film seems to be by people who like Tarantino, not cinema. Which really is a paradox. If you love cinema, if you’re obsessed with Hollywood history and the transition from Golden…
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Heretic 2024
Heretic, is a case of director having a conversation with themselves. The characters are mere avatars without any internal life of their own, they're not trying to do anything to one another, they are merely espousing the director’s thesis on religion. And frankly, I was having these conversations in my 20s, usually while passing around a joint, which made it feel far more mind blowing.
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