The year started with Poor Things… and it shall end with it too.
It has been a rather marvellous 2024. The journey that I have taken through cinema has been absolutely exhilarating, devouring the delights the world has to offer. I, at first, had a ing interest in the film from its trailers, noting that I would eventually see it, but given my then sorta humbug nature, I needed a push. So, when Kurt asked if I wanted to see…
To do a piece of writing about Pink Flamingos is a curse. No matter what you do, it will always be a long and challenging time to create a piece that one would ultimately feel proud of. One can write too many words and not say much, or could write too few words and say too much. Where does one start in a discussion of such a film, where do you begin? The plot? The characters? The production values? The…
Somehow my mind compelled me to revisit Helicopter Canada, a quirky documentary that I saw in my very early days of Letterboxing.
The premise is simple- Canada was celebrating a centenary in 1966, and this documentary was made to capture the sights of Canada… as seen through a helicopter hovering above it all, armed with scope widescreen camera.
So much of the visuals and vistas you can see here are quite extraordinary, going through the countrysides, rural areas, forests, mountains,…
For eight minutes, we get treated to aerial footage of Canada scored by psychedelic rock. Interesting.
It was cool to see the grand vistas of the land captured in glorious scope widescreen, and being shot mostly from a plane was an interesting touch, although personally, if one wants the definitive look at Canada from above, watch Helicopter Canada.
Minus a few points for the shots taken on a boat on very harsh waters, it made me further realise I’ve inherited my dad’s motion sickness.
THE LUNATICS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ASYLUM! I REPEAT, THE LUNATICS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ASYLUM!
Out of complete left field, this was the chosen film to finish off the Art Gallery’s wonderful series of Folly. “But why”, I wondered, I thought all that there is to the name of Babe is warmness and small scale events. But alas, this takes place in the city, far away from the coziness of the farm and countryside, an environment full of perversion,…
Over the past month and a bit, my dad and I was able to rip my way through as much Twin Peaks as we can, all the way up to the point of Season 2 in which we find out who killed Laura Palmer. As my parents went on vacation, I was at least at a point (I felt) that watching Fire Walk With Me would not be an overt spoiler for the rest of the series. And so I…
