Still great. I've changed in ten years but the movie remains the same and it's as solid as the first time I saw it. A film, like so many, that is thinking ten steps ahead of me and I love it! You could extrapolate all the meanings and themes and undercurrents you want from this for years on end and still it would hold its own mysteries to its chest.
My experience of seeing this film suffered from having watched Hobo with a Shotgun beforehand. Or did it? Hobo with a Shotgun is a throwback exploitation flick that is not the best film by any great stretch but its shrieking, gory content is made by someone who loves exploitation cinema and clearly, dearly wanted to make his own contribution. Ghost Shark 2: Urban Jaws seems to have been made by a bunch people who think they're above it all. It…
NZIFF '24 - 15
Wow! I don't think I've ever seen so many tits and arse shots in one movie. Even when it comes to making sleazy movies, takes a woman to do a man's job. Coralie Fargeat's The Substance is so gloriously exploitative and yet with a deep moral backbone, the like of which gets ripped out herein. It's like that comedian who gets described as un-PC and doesn't care what he thinks but actually is the reverse. A…
Turning an eye toward the ruling classes, Lindsay Anderson created a surreal piss-take of the outdated ideas being drilled into young boys in the junior halls of power. The college is a medieval nest for medieval ideas. The teachers are miserable, the freshmen are frightened, even the rebels are ultimately unsatisfied, the only joy in that place is coveted by the prefects. The same prefects that made Roald Dahl warm their toilet seats in the 1920s and the same prefects…
