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Something to look forward to:
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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I remembered the first film, the seaweed waving in the river, the parting on the bridge, like a film I'd seen a long, long time ago and didn't remember...it made me sad.
Maybe I didn't. Maybe I hadn't seen it all. The next two in the series, they're on their own, I've no recollection whatsoever.
It's Cambell's "The Hero's Journey", but in Japanese and some decades before he wrote it. It's "El Topo" without the Acid. It's genius, and in countless tiny things brilliant and without peer, it's that rare film (trilogy) - that hired a proper writer and director, and the results are clear...
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By Jan Švankmajer, director of "Faust" and "Alice", a surrealist film dealing with the internal suppression of furtive, guilty and indecent pleasures. Suggestive, symbolic, finger condoms, the gooey flour paste lathered over pornographic magazines to make papier mache masks, glue squeezed out of a tube, tightly clutched joysticks, the absence of real and meaningful connection, filled with surreptitious and knowing glances, tactile sensory imagery, the characters discover that their elaborate fantasies have real world repercussions, and they are as much the victims of the fantasies as they are their authors...
Finally something that doesn't adhere to the American cultural narrative, worthwhile...
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Teenage girls love horror films.
A date with the daughter, she brings a friend, give them a choice: A one man show playing at the Pumphouse (Star Wars, Charles Ross) or a movie. After the last "One Man Show" the daughter chooses movie...
Not surprising. My movie pick, in keeping with the Halloween and horror theme, is "Ouiji: Origin of Evil". Her friend is agreed, she wants to see this. They text their mothers, get permission to be up a bit late, we kill time at the mall...
Movie. OK. Not a masterpiece by a long shot. But for the girls, it was a screamfest, and as they are howling and hiding their eyes I can't restrain my mirth, the movie, it has a few moments, for sure, but for both of them (I thought one was experienced in the genre, she claimed to be, she wasn't...) it was the fuel of nightmares..."Don't Breathe" was the better movie, by far, but this has them terrified, and I suggest that for Halloween I pop by with my Ouiji board...
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I knew him from "The Weekly Wipe", turns out he's a bit of a polymath. His new series - less a series than a group of shorts dealing with the technical dystopia we're finding ourselves in, interesting, thoughtful, very well written, although a little more visceral than I'd care for (and, in true English sense, going that little bit further, pushing the envelope) - not precisely my cup of tea, but very good.