Cut from a Different Cloth
John Galliano… talk about multitudes. Prodigious fine artist turned fashion student; gym junkie; anti-semite who spectacularly exploded his (first) redemption arc; alcoholic and pills addict; etc. Of all the sides of him we see in Kevin Macdonald’s recent documentary, High & Low – John Galliano, the one that most astonished me was how hard the man worked. Consider the utterly insane amount of work he was producing at his peak while working at Dior: ‘I was…
Now THAT's Cinema.
Thierry Henry once said of his former club, ‘if you tell you like football, and you don’t like Barcelona… we have a problem.’ I feel the same could be said about cinema, and Bob Fosse’s self-mythologizing biopic, All That Jazz (1979). It’s so joyous, so big, so ridiculous, so clever, and so thoroughly what it means to go to the movies.
New Hollywood, a period from roughly 1968 to 1980, was characterised by a movement away from…
How this film isn't known to young people everywhere is beyond me. It warrants some comparisons to Larry Clark's Kids, insofar as it’s about teenagers who get into some really dark shit. But firstly it’s about a group of girls, with very few boys onscreen at all, and secondly despite all the grit it’s got a lot of heart too. It does an amazing job of evoking how young people are both incredibly cruel/destructive, and at the same time vulnerable…
