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We are nearing the end of the lazy summer season and its heat wave and procrastination before the drudgery of September kicks in is at an all time high, so the more mind-numbing the film the better to ease the pressure. It’s the perfect moment to catch up on all those so-bad-they’re-good cinema classics, from the more obscure to the increasingly popular thanks to the main actor’s ever growing (…) Continue Reading »
18 August 2010
The Cars That Ate Paris (The Cars That Eat People)
by Abla KandalaftThe Paris in the title is basically Australia’s version of Royston Vasey in Peter Weir’s uncharacteristically weird ozploitation classic; a small town whose inhabitants cause car accidents to use salvaged valuables and bits of scrap metal as (…) Continue Reading »
J said J would not say, any other thought, but the other thought she thought. You heard, except she said be. Locked in a TV studio you can only be, not watch TV. The bright lighting says, what is watching but there is anyway night vision. This advert is for a car and is v long and they say it is inspired by (an endorsement deal). You can win (an endorsement deal) and (a photoshoot) you can (…) Continue Reading »
11 August 2010
If I want to whistle I whistle (Premiere in Paris)
by Abla KandalaftParisCinema Festival 2010 offering number three is Romanian film If I want to whistle I whistle, directed by Florin Serban. Continue Reading »
10 August 2010
The Robber (Premiere in Paris)
by Abla KandalaftToday’s pick from the Paris Cinema film festival is Benjamin Heisenberg’s The Robber, winner of the Student Jury prize. Continue Reading »
OR you do not bite your tongue you do unbite your tongue you do release your teeth seemingly you do return your tongue seemingly your tongue do rest. You do reverse the signal. You do examine the impulse. You do use your eyes. You do use your ears. You do breathe. You do breathe in substances and hear in silences and see in shades. You do let all this happen. All this do happen without you. (…) Continue Reading »
4 August 2010
Mundane History (Premiere in Paris)
by Abla KandalaftThis is the first of a few reviews of some of the films presented at the ParisCinema film festival in July 2010.
Mundane History (Jao Nok Krajok)
and Q & A with director Anocha Suwichakornpong Continue Reading »
XXY weaves together three landscapes: the fluidity of the ocean, the violence of the scientist’s laboratory and the arid determinacy of life on dry land. Fifteen year old Alex, who so far has been subsumed by neither a male nor female gendered identity, is marooned on the shore. For writer/director Lucia Puenzo this is where things are forced into a fixed shape.
XXY (in my opinion grossly (…) Continue Reading »
DAY 29 TO DAY 42
a slapped arse e.g.
a headless chicken e.g.
an ostrich e.g.
The Industrial Revolution
Reality Television
Technological Singularity
Nothing in here is real so why would I risk putting myself
‘on the sofa’
directly I entered the house
directly I made my entrance:
no movement
no response
no entertainment
no expression
no opinion
no position.
When (…) Continue Reading »
Chris Morris’s jihad comedy Four Lions depicts five inept Muslim ’suicide bombers’ and has been praised as a delightful expose of the ’moral idiocy’ of such an act. Here I discuss the forthcoming sequel. Continue Reading »