Finally, after a year of hard work, not much blood, a little bit of sweat and many tears, One Summer on Earth has been (and is being) shared.
It has been such a strange process, starting with a mental breakdown and ending with one of the best days of my life - sitting in the cinema surrounded by my parents, my partner, aunts, uncles, grandparents, friends, parents of friends, colleagues, ex-colleagues, ex-teachers and so many others who had all gathered…
Finally, here I am, at the big 1000. So many people on this platform choose important films, special films and films that have power, both artistically and emotionally. I too wanted my 1000th to be special, but I wanted to choose something that would be special to me, so here I am, just having finished David Lynch Cooks Quinoa.
It may not be an obvious pick unless you know me well, but I knew this had to be it; this…
The life that is breathed into Rachel Getting Married is authentic and vibrant and hilarious. It's a mix of all of the most raucous and cacophonous emotions, a climax of the most intense feelings of love and hate and stress and joy - it is life, captured by a masterful artist.
The story is by no means new, it's a wedding and not everything goes to plan but, unlike any other film in the not very obscure genre, this one…
But Life of Pi might actually have been good if it was directed by Wong Kar-wai.
A sweet little film for a sweet afternoon.
I always tell myself 'oh, yeah, I think I have some kind of an idea about what's going on' and then remember a scene I had forgotten that just ruins my theory. That's why I love it with all my heart. Does a film need to actually say something? Does it need to do anything? Why does it have to make sense? A reminder of this every so often is fantastic, especially if that reminder gives me the same morbid enchantment David Lynch manages to put into every one of his films, long or short.
What? WHAAT?
Story time:
The first time I watched this was at the beginning of summer in 2019. Very late to the party, I know. I hated it. I hated it with a passion. I had just finished the book, which I loved, and anyone who has read it will know that the two works are significantly different. I think, first time around, I hated it because I felt it thoughtlessly massacred the book.
Before going to see Doctor Sleep…
