Directed by Kevin Phillips There's something unsettling about your teenage years, at least while you're in them. There have been many a film made about such a time, seen through a nostalgic lens, but Super Dark Times is not one of those films. It's highly in the moment, moving with every dramatic whim perceived by its … Continue reading Super Dark Times (2017)
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Tony Manero (2008)
Directed by Pablo Larrain There's some overlap between the physicality of violence and dancing, or at least they seem to be paralleled in certain movies and media. In the music video to The Shoes' "Time to Dance" Jake Gyllenhaal plays a serial killer whose compulsion seems to come from his inability to dance (so he … Continue reading Tony Manero (2008)
The Yakuza (1974)
Directed by Sydney Pollack "A Yakuza pays his debts/A Yakuza does his duty/A man without debt/A man without duty/Is not a man." This is the song sung midway through Sydney Pollack's The Yakuza and which sums up the philosophy which guides the characters of the film. It's an eastern philosophy into which the western character, Harry Kilmer … Continue reading The Yakuza (1974)
High Life (2018)
Directed by Claire Denis It's hard to shake the imagery of Claire Denis' High Life. It's a science fiction film that takes place on a small ship floating through the cosmic abyss, but more than that it's about sexuality, reproduction and isolation. Within its own hermetically sealed world the limited number of characters here begin to … Continue reading High Life (2018)
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