Category: Comedy

  • Clue (1985)

    Clue (1985)

    Screened at Luna Cinemas Leederville as part of the Trash Classics season programmed by VHS Tracking. “Imagine seeing Clue (1985) when it came out with the three different endings, and NOT seeing the one with Madeline Khan talking about the flames on her face!” a woman remarked to me after the screening. She also talked about having… Read.

  • Foxfur (2012)

    Foxfur (2012)

    Foxfur (2012) won me over by its title credit sequence using Tangerine Dream’s ‘Crystal Voice’ from the original Firestarter film soundtrack, trippy synth ambience over an image of outer space. This is the first film of cult director Damon Packard’s that I’ve now seen, and knowing that it was one hour long and available for… Read.

  • Fruit Of Paradise (1970)

    Fruit Of Paradise (1970)

    When it comes to the avant garde as long as it looks good, I don’t care if it’s incomprehensible. Not that I really think Czech director Věra Chytilová’s Fruit Of Paradise (1970) is incomprehensible. I have seen Chytilová’s most famous film, Daisies, twice in my life and enjoyed it. In the first ten minutes of… Read.

  • Claire’s Camera (2017)

    Claire’s Camera (2017)

    I think it was Gene Siskel who determined a movie’s quality by the following dictum: Is this film more interesting than a documentary of the same actors having lunch?  The films of Hong Sang-soo sometimes feel like you’re just watching a documentary actors sitting around and eating, though a key difference in the Sang-soo world… Read.

  • Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World (2023)

    Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World (2023)

    “Where’s the director? … I have one word for you: emotion.” Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World (2023) is the third film of Romanian director Radu Jude’s that I have seen and I love his approach and style. Taking inspiration from Jean-Luc Godard and others, Jadu makes essay-films that bring… Read.