These films made a grave mistake when they went down the fairytale hero/ Ogre as family man route this early on.
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Nosferatu 2024
Incredibly average — Hoult is a great presence but drifts away from the film… I’m not sure the film benefits from an expanded roster of characters and more linear plotting. the ‘fake contract’ and estate agent/Renfield combo character… just makes no sense. In a less dry and straight faced film this could be played humorously (as the book often is..) but here the rotting personification of death needs paperwork to do his vile deeds? A lot of the film is…
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Hoard 2023
LIFF #7
I saw an old Robert Redford interview recently where he told a story about sitting in a bin in an alley in New York, in his pre fame actor-ly experimental days, to see what would happen - barely anyone noticed or looked.
When we encounter people- outcasts, fringe individuals, people who smell or look dirty and spent- we often ignore them. In a perverse sense it is our nature. The inner life of these people is of no…
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Dread Poets' Society 1992
More of its time and socially conscious in 30 minutes than a lot of contemporary British cinema. Without need for turgid kitchen sinkisms!
witty, fantastical but grounded in real world discussions around poetry. Some remarkable one liners and Benjamin Zephaniah a purely charismatic figure - this is rebellious and good natured, joyful even. Mary Shelley, hello!
Deeply missing an anthology like serial show in todays climate of underfunded up and coming writer and directors with few avenues to develop through production. Look at the experimentation and lively storytelling. Look that we used to facilitate this for primetime television.
Rest well Benjamin Zephaniah.
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