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Time, Gentlemen, Please! 1952
Well, the Thaxted movie did have a lot of Thaxted in it; not merely the odd establishing shot before a cut into a studio set for lengthy scene after lengthy scene, but rather lots of location shooting both in and around the delightful little town, such that ‘Little Hayhoe’, as it was christened for the film’s purposes, had a thorough, and thoroughly good, sense of place. Not a great deal could be said of the remainder of the picture, alas;…
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The Glass Bottom Boat 1966
A fantabulous, unhinged comedy which had apparently been made by people who were constantly at the very least high on sugar. Occasionally the energy was simply too unchecked, some cuts out of scenes and straight into other ones very abrupt, and one montage in which lots and lots of high jinks were going on in close series essentially unfollowable, but broadly the ebullient, facetious spirit of the project was energising in itself, with a grin almost always on my face…
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Torn 2021
A psychotherapy project dressed up as a documentary feature, which ignored practically all those aspects of its notional subject’s ascent in the climbing world and final expedition which were necessary for a general audience to gain and retain an appreciation of that subject, so that it might tap away at those few matters which were of particular, indeed unique, paramountcy for the film’s director, who happened to be the notional subject’s son. I do hope that making the film helped…
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Flow 2024
I was appallingly understimulated while watching Flow, a malformed animation which in spite of its title was notable for the absence of any flow which it brought to its shapeless proceedings. The film had no dialogue, for starters, and a narrative which existed only in the broadest sense, which placed an enormous burden on the visuals, which were repulsive, positively archaic with respect to the technology which had apparently been used to create them, and stylistically indifferent. It was a…
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