Roderick Heath
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"Privilege and Edvard Munch prove engaged with the same essential point of enquiry: the idea of the artist as a barometer of their moment in history..." - I look at two Peter Watkins classics at Film Freedonia:
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Rewatch: Irving Pichel and Ernest B Schoedsack's The Most Dangerous Game. "One passion builds upon another. Kill, then love!"
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Rewatch: Irving Pichel and Ernest B Schoedsack's The Most Dangerous Game. "One passion builds upon another. Kill, then love!"
Trump's attitude to Ukraine is so obviously the product of his view that the little dog resisting the big dog's attempts to fuck it is a violation of the natural order of things.
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Trump's attitude to Ukraine is so obviously the product of his view that the little dog resisting the big dog's attempts to fuck it is a violation of the natural order of things.
...Vale Udo Kier, the overlord of cult cinema. In memoriam, my look at Walerian Borowczyk's Doctor Jekyll And His Women:
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Docteur Jekyll et les Femmes (1981)
. aka Dr. Jekyll and his Women ; The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne ; The Blood of Dr. Jekyll ; Bloodlust Director / Screenwriter: Walerian Borowczyk By Roderick Heath Robert Louis St…
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November 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
...Vale Udo Kier, the overlord of cult cinema. In memoriam, my look at Walerian Borowczyk's Doctor Jekyll And His Women:
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Viewing: Ari Aster's Eddington. Umm, sure, I guess. Superficially captures some of the craziness of that moment, but also reaches a point where it won't, or can't, get any deeper and closer to its characters and their worldviews. Absurdly overlong.
November 23, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Viewing: Ari Aster's Eddington. Umm, sure, I guess. Superficially captures some of the craziness of that moment, but also reaches a point where it won't, or can't, get any deeper and closer to its characters and their worldviews. Absurdly overlong.
Viewing: Francis Lawrence's The Long Walk. Not a barrel of laughs, but not much else either; verbose script for a bunch of guys out of breath. Managed to be both distant in style and corny with its CGI gore. Good perfs but Hamill wrong.
November 22, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Viewing: Francis Lawrence's The Long Walk. Not a barrel of laughs, but not much else either; verbose script for a bunch of guys out of breath. Managed to be both distant in style and corny with its CGI gore. Good perfs but Hamill wrong.
Viewing: Brian Kirk's Dead of Winter. Familiar kind of plot but very well-done, interesting character elements. More Emma Thompson suspense thrillers, thanks.
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Viewing: Brian Kirk's Dead of Winter. Familiar kind of plot but very well-done, interesting character elements. More Emma Thompson suspense thrillers, thanks.
Rewatch. Stone cold masterpiece.
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Rewatch. Stone cold masterpiece.
Admittedly I have this lament about 85% of modern cinema.
The '70s version would have had Sandy Dennis or someone in it and lots of zoom shots of dew-soaked leaves and had dialogue that sounded like things actual people would say.
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Admittedly I have this lament about 85% of modern cinema.
Viewing: Eva Victor's Sorry, Baby. Had strong moments, but overall felt very first year writing class - postures and strategies passed off as insight and human tragicomedy.
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Viewing: Eva Victor's Sorry, Baby. Had strong moments, but overall felt very first year writing class - postures and strategies passed off as insight and human tragicomedy.
Viewing: Nia DaCosta's Hedda. Cruella for art house crowds. Very well-made and Hoss is as great as usual, but turns a fine play into a lurid melodrama.
November 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Viewing: Nia DaCosta's Hedda. Cruella for art house crowds. Very well-made and Hoss is as great as usual, but turns a fine play into a lurid melodrama.
Interesting recent uptick in random, highly blockable accounts having digs at my opinions, citing how I'm not (insert-famous-impressive-writer X here). Maybe a consequence of ceasing longform criticism, new online blood sport, or just bots trying to whip things up.
November 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Interesting recent uptick in random, highly blockable accounts having digs at my opinions, citing how I'm not (insert-famous-impressive-writer X here). Maybe a consequence of ceasing longform criticism, new online blood sport, or just bots trying to whip things up.
Viewing: Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague. Good-looking fetishism-pastiche with nothing to say about Godard or cinema beyond the most superficial.
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Viewing: Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague. Good-looking fetishism-pastiche with nothing to say about Godard or cinema beyond the most superficial.
the pope and movies huh
November 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
the pope and movies huh
Rewatch: Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. "Do I look like your parent?" "Kinda."
Fuckin' film of the decade vibes off this one.
Fuckin' film of the decade vibes off this one.
November 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Rewatch: Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another. "Do I look like your parent?" "Kinda."
Fuckin' film of the decade vibes off this one.
Fuckin' film of the decade vibes off this one.
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Malcolm Nance said these sound like the titles of porn movies.
November 16, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Malcolm Nance said these sound like the titles of porn movies.
Argh ... must ... stop ... listening to ... old krautrock albums ... na.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Argh ... must ... stop ... listening to ... old krautrock albums ... na.
Viewing: Jared Hess's A Minecraft Movie. Started well, stayed modest fun, but became a generic fantasy adventure, the kind that mistakes everyone shouting all the time for high spirits. Lots of Lord-Miller-ish humour, a style fast getting played out.
November 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Viewing: Jared Hess's A Minecraft Movie. Started well, stayed modest fun, but became a generic fantasy adventure, the kind that mistakes everyone shouting all the time for high spirits. Lots of Lord-Miller-ish humour, a style fast getting played out.
And finally they'll be the Saggy Actor awards.
every new day brings another rat turd in your coffee
November 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
And finally they'll be the Saggy Actor awards.
Viewing: Paul Greengrass's The Lost Bus. Man, this was well-done. A little dramatically blunt in getting moving but soon kicked into depicting escalating crisis - personal, then civic, and finally survival - with white-knuckle intensity.
November 14, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Viewing: Paul Greengrass's The Lost Bus. Man, this was well-done. A little dramatically blunt in getting moving but soon kicked into depicting escalating crisis - personal, then civic, and finally survival - with white-knuckle intensity.
Because all capitalism pushes towards one desired outcome, the elimination of worker costs. AI allows companies the fond fantasy they can do it without resorting to slavery.
There are hundreds of articles and explainer videos on how AI is costing companies far more than they produce in revenue, how AI has failed at almost every level of business integration, and STILL(!!!) you have one company after another adopting it. The world can't get any dumber.
November 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Because all capitalism pushes towards one desired outcome, the elimination of worker costs. AI allows companies the fond fantasy they can do it without resorting to slavery.
It's almost precisely ten years since I hit publish on my defence of the Star Wars prequels, so here it is again, in all its divisive glory:
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Star Wars – Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) / Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) / Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)
. Director/Coscreenwriter: George Lucas By Roderick Heath The fervent anticipation at the nearing release of Star Wars – Episode VII: The Force Awakens carries an unavoidable sensation of déjà vu. …
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November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It's almost precisely ten years since I hit publish on my defence of the Star Wars prequels, so here it is again, in all its divisive glory:
filmfreedonia.com/2015/12/02/s...
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Viewing: Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang's KPop Demon Hunters. KPop is a demonic plot to rob the world of its soul? Finally, a believable plot.
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Viewing: Chris Appelhans and Maggie Kang's KPop Demon Hunters. KPop is a demonic plot to rob the world of its soul? Finally, a believable plot.
I think I'm going institute a policy of unfollowing anyone posting AI art or animation from now on, so consider yourselves duly warned.
November 12, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I think I'm going institute a policy of unfollowing anyone posting AI art or animation from now on, so consider yourselves duly warned.
Viewing: Matthew Rankin's Universal Language. One of the funniest and most original films I've seen in quite a while.
November 12, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Viewing: Matthew Rankin's Universal Language. One of the funniest and most original films I've seen in quite a while.