2020 log: January

Films Lonely are the Brave (Miller, 1962. Mubi) – I could take or leave the sleepy setup and Gena Rowlands wasted … More

Transit (2019)

Transit features a parsed requisitioning of my favourite short story, kafka’s ‘Before The Law’. petzold’s retelling has a man sitting … More

Went over to Islington with M on 15 October to watch a live screening of The Cabinet as part of this … More

A pretty uncomplicated story: Planes Trains, here cast as a melancholy clown-type dad impersonating a life-coach in an attempt to … More

First time with Haneke. The film begins with the doctor tripping off his horse because a wire has been inexplicably … More

17 years! Probably about 5 for me, but still. 1 and 2 create disharmony and disorientation. Less the previous sense … More

At the beginning, real life invades the world of poor artists. But Fox is transplanted out of his “real self” … More

Second time with Fassbinder (after Merchant of Four Seasons – which is better) “People always say ‘but’…”: hard to shake the feeling … More