I’ve lost track of whether I’ve seen Lynn Ramsay’s Ratcatcher (1999) or Morvern Callar (2002), but I was disappointed by We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011) – suckered in by Tilda Swinton, ignoring the Lionel Shriver klaxon.
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Almost the Whole Hogg
Unrelated (Joanna Hogg, 2007)
Exhibition (Joanna Hogg, 2013)
The Souvenir Part II (Joanna Hogg, 2021)
It’s pretty rare for low budget independent movies to have sequels – Hogg’s The Souvenir is a rare exception.
Meanwhile, not being aware that it was getting an imminent release, I went back to earlier films.
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A Keeper?
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg, 2019)
For a good chunk of this film I sat there wondering who it was playing Anthony.
The Dead Don’t Do Subtext
The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch, 2019)
Jim Jarmusch is evidently one of those low budget indie auteur who both builds an ensemble around him and persuades A-List stars in search of artistic credibility to work for him (presumably for scale). A couple of years ago he cast the divine Tilda Swinton in a misjudged vampire film, Only Lovers Left Alive and now he shifts to the zombie film to pastiche.
Apocalypse for Strings
Jóhann Jóhannsson, Last and First Men (Barbican, LSO conducted by Daníel Bjarnason, 1 December 2018)
As black and white footage of concrete construction unfolds on a screen through the mirk of dry ice, I think of Goran Stefanovski, who I so wish I talk to about this – this is film of the former Yugoslavia, it may or may not be Macedonia, and I have no idea if these are ruins or sculptures or… He would have loved the conversation. The cinematographer was Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, who worked on the one-take Victoria (Sebastian Schipper, 2015), but Jóhannsson directed it.
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