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Just finished Alain Resnais's Hiroshima Mon Amour.A true masterpiece flawlessly directed and well written.A story about love,time and memory set in a badly wounded land
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I've been watching a lot of mostly lame films recently. As such, let me talk to you about some movies on the other side of the dvd-and-related-media rainbow. LIQUID SKY. This is simply one of my all time favorites. If you were around at the turn of the 80s in downtown Manhattan, I hope you were blessed enough to lead the same kind of existence as the guys and gals herein. Some alien visitors really dig the post-punk fashion scene and end up addicted to human orgasms. A Russian scientist guy with a telescope tracks them down, maybe. Yes, the substance - use analogy is crude. But it's great. The aliens manifest only as bad visual effects of the worst analogue kind. Everyone is a massively dissociated androgyne. The film itself is art-damaged to exactly the right degree. Strike an angular pose amidst the neon-slick grime and OD to no-wave electro skronk. Why won't the guardians of DVD set this one free? Why is the video lottery run by bastards? TOURIST TRAP. Dummies, dolls and mannequins of all kinds make me happy when they spring to life. I'm not jaded enough to be beyond that stuff. In this one, Chuck Connors is the owner of a waxwork display just off the desert highway somewhere in late 70s California... a bunch of slasher-fodder teens find out that there's more to Chuck besides heart warming banter and cack-handed sub-Tussaudisms (namely, he is his own psycho killer twin and he can animate waxworks to creepy and murderous effect using the raw power of his diseased mind). Watch out for the killer freeze frame. From Charles Band before he went eighties. |
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I thought that it really lacked any interesting characters. Even Kelly McGillis's turn was pretty thin and the two leads were the kind of 2D semi-slacker archetypes that were popular years ago, but now just seem weak parodies. The apparent tension of the film that people talked about was as convincing as ghost train ride, and the frankly dull ambiguous ending left me yawning. I've yet to see House of the Devil, but a few people who were fans of that thought that The Innkeepers was a bit of a let down, but as I said I'm definitely in the minority. It's just that if this is the future of horror films (along with The Woman), then these young(ish) film makers really need to buck their ideas up because I see nothing inspiring about these lacklustre efforts. If I had to callously sum it up in a tweet: It's like a Daniel Clowes fan trying to recreate Kubrick's The Shining... poorly. (Actually that'd probably be very appealing to a lot of people)
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I distinctly remember seeing it in our local video store for rent in about 84/85 with that amazing painted cover (of which I know own an original US promo poster) and wanting to get it out, but was never allowed - not sure how a 5/6 yr old me would have got on with it back then. I just picked up this up yesterday which has a fascinating article about the film in it. It gives some background to Tsukerman and Carlisle, which really helps to see how the story came about from the myriad ideas of the writers and there are some excerpts from a [I]Variety interview with Tsukerman. And I love the score, especially the Me and My Rhythmbox song, which is pure Nathan Barley/Shoreditch Twat territory.
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I had an Abel Ferrara double bill last night - MS.45 and The King of New York. Unbelievably I'd never seen these. MS.45 surprised me - I thought it would be a gritty, authentic revenge number but it was more like a highly stylised, almost farcical film - loved it though. KoNY was also brilliant, was amazed at how beautiful it looked and what a cast it had. Lets have some Ferrara special editions please Arrow!
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