Cosmic coincidences and metaphysical meetings. Edward Yang captures the invisible threads linking us all in a seemingly random constellation of material circumstances. A writers-block effected novelist, a prank-calling teen, and a perverted photographer appear to be unknowingly writing the film as it happens, their personal relationships unravelling through chance encounters. I found this to be the most enigmatic, anxious, and mysterious of Yang’s films I’ve seen.
A troubled anxiety seeps across the empty-spaces of a film made towards the end…
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Terrorizers 1986
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The Heroic Trio 1993
Three of the cuntiest women ever - motorcycle riding, invisible, and flying - united to fight a slimy old man in a delightfully camp action film for the ages. Hollywood could never. I’ve been on a real Maggie Cheung dive lately, and between her, Michelle Yeoh, and Anita Mui there is limitless charisma. Plus it’s completely bonkers. Finger-eating, baby-killing mythical villains and cannibal toddlers from the underworld.
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Irma Vep 1996
40 years after Varda, Godard, and Truffaut burst onto the scene with their critique of and departure from French cinema of the era, Olivier Assayas bares arms against the global cinematic industrial complex. At once an interrogation of the past and opening up of a constellation of possible futures. Assayas plays with the naturalistic and the surreal, the film within the film is based on a silent film but comes out looking like a Stan Brakhage avant-garde experiment literally scratching…
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Divine Intervention 2002
Still somewhat lost for words that I got to see one my favourite films ever on the big screen on 35mm. The great Palestinian author and activist Ghassan Kanafani said in 1970 that ‘peace talks’ would be like trying to have a conversation between “the sword and the neck”. Elia Suleiman shows us that the one holding the sword is an insecure loser.
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