You, The Living (2007)

Like being toured unwillingly round a sad, grey zoo. Andersson invites us to rue the banal complacency of his subjects … More

2020 log: May

Films Ema (Larraín, 2020. Mubi) – Big ‘preview’ for this on 1st May; turns out they put it on the main … More

A sequel to Scenes from a Marriage, but I think its intergenerational bruising, oaky colour palette and air of legacy are … More

Films The Éric Rohmer Collection (Arrow video, 2005) – My concession to Ruth’s suggestion that I take the pandemic as an … More

(Couldn’t resist that poster!) It’s easy to read Judge Abrahamson as a stand-in for the viewer here, not least because … More

Films Eastern Promises (Cronenberg, 2007. DVD) – Draw a line from A History of Violence down to Cosmopolis and Maps to the Stars and you’ll … More

Portions, or rather levels, of Bergman’s later films (I’m saying Scenes from a Marriage (1974) onwards) seem locked away from me, like … More

I found this to be transportive, genuine, disorienting. Boström Knausgaard’s prose is terse but not fragmentary; its thoughts and statements … More

Films Starship Troopers (Verhoeven, 1997. TV) – This is essentially a riotously fun success, and classic Verhoeven, with particular emphasis … More

Mark Cousins’ feature debut, I believe. To reduce it to what I know: an awful lot of stuff in here … More