I’m in quite the drunken haze at a house party, but yet I can’t get ‘Banshees’ out of my head. About two and a half hours has surpassed since I saw the film, but not for a single moment has it escaped my thoughts.
Every once in a while a film comes along and hits you from every angle in just the right way and at just the right time. To this day, I have never seen a film quite…
"We broke up on April Fool's Day, so I took it as a joke. I'm willing to humour her for a month..."
Very few films (from what I’ve seen) have broken the barrier between fiction and documentary. Fiction is a concept that reminds the audience that what they are watching is not real, just a fantasy. A documentary is a small keyhole into the world of it's subjects. It can be heartbreaking, scary and uplifting. But we are constantly being…
It has taken me far too long to get to Young Frankenstein, as well as Mel Brooks. To this day, Mel Brooks is a director I know only by name. I have never sat down and watched one of his films in their entirety. I have seen numerous scenes from his films, and the first exposure I had to Young Frankenstein was when I was playing a DVD board game called 'Scene It.' For anyone that remembers 'Scene It,' there…
I am not as exposed to Sean Baker as others. I have only seen The Florida Project, and despite the brilliant ending, it did not have too big an effect on me. I have not seen Red Rocket or Tangerine, and the more I think about my previous statement, the more I am ready for another viewing of The Florida Project. I want to see if my thoughts towards it have warmed since I first saw it a few years…
Often, art which is the most beautiful to me are the ones coated in simplicity. Complexity is sometimes an unnecessary mode of practise, and just takes away from what the subject really is. A painting at the end of day consists of paint, a canvas and someone with a paintbrush. Simplicity. Similarly, a film is a group of people inhabiting the lives of other people, a director behind the camera telling the actors what to do, and a camera man.…
"Welcome to purgatory."
"Good to be here."
Watching Andrew Garfield dancing to R.E.M.'s 'What's the Frequency, Kenneth?' whilst in an underground club that uses tombstones of iconic Hollywood figures as bar tables was so morbidly beautiful. It made me look past the character's horrible stench, which I swear to Christ was seeping through my TV. Thank you David Robert Mitchell, I have a feeling I'll sleep soundly tonight.
To comprehend every single thread of information this film lunges at you…
