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An Oral History of 28 Days Later
Inverse has a short oral history of 28 Days Later – film I looked back at almost four years ago. It’s an interesting little piece and I’d not realise how close 9/11 had come to putting an end to the production of a film that, ultimately, turned out to be a major influence on the genre.
Rejected / Don Hertzfeldt (2000)
From 2000, the rather lovely Rejected by Don Hertzfeldt.
Recent Films
Missing Believed Wiped / Timeshift (BBC4 / 2003)
Recent films – Summer 2022
It’s been something of a slow summer season for films this year.
Layer Cake
And in the beginning there was ‘Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels‘, and the people saw it and liked it and told their friends, who also saw it and liked it and told their friends.,
And then, after some time, it had earned 28 million dollars on a budget of just 1.4 million.
And the film executives and producers and directors looked at this return and saw that it was good.
And thus began the late 90s wave of UK-based dramedy crime capers.
Continue readingStrangelove
The original Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb trailer. It’s probably still the best black comedy about the cold war I have seen.
Recent Films
Some notes on films and loosely film-shaped things that I’ve recently watched.
The Two Popes
From the Vatican’s New Media department comes… ‘The Two Popes’; a 125 minute explanation of how the infallibility of the Catholic Church turned out to be a little less infallible than initially thought. Ultimately, we find out that while the old Pope was old fashioned, dogmatic, and bad (and was conscripted by nazis as a boy), the new Pope is in touch, modern, and an all round good egg (who just so happened to choose to back murderous dictators as an adult). Like most of the Netflix Original movies, it has that odd TV/Film hybrid feel about how it was produced that I am yet to become comfortable with.
Continue readingNetflix killed the video shop
Bath’s last remaining video rental shop.
I do like the idea of running a video/dvd rental shop in what is – essentially – the foyer to a small cinema.