Kyle

Stoke-on-Trent / York

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Capybara Walking 1887

Watched by Kyle 11 Apr 2022

Films don’t exist, they’re just an another thing to overanalyse and write essays on. Follow me on Musicboard where I’m actually active.
The Velvet Underground 2021

★★★★ Watched by Kyle 03 Feb 2022

As the apocryphal quote goes, “The Velvet Underground didn’t sell many records, but everyone who bought one started their own band”. What follows is a chain of influence that continues to this day. Although their sound is most clearly heard in the genres of punk, glam, goth, and garage rock, the Velvets have never really left cultural consciousness. Personally speaking, the band introduced me to a world of music I had not yet encountered at the age of 16 -…

Hubie Halloween 2020

Watched by Kyle 10 Sep 2020

Fuck You Howard
The Sacrifice 1986

★★★★½ Watched by Kyle 31 Dec 2020 2

Although the Bergman influence is well established, I can’t help but see some Beckett creeping through (which is likely incidental but definitely enhanced my viewing); little man and the tree, slapstick physicality, a piano scene that recalls Bergman’s Autumn Sonata and Beckett’s BBC radio play - Embers. Embers itself becomes an unlikely, yet, equally dour and rewarding companion piece to The Sacrifice’s psycho-geography and purgatorial monologues. Beckett once wrote to Alan Schneider, on the topic of Waiting For Godot film adaptations,…