Roderick Heath
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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.
Joined December 2011
Sharing my Peter Watkins essay again because it's going to be the last film writing I do for maybe ever. So enjoy it. Or not.
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Michael Madsen was so zeitgeisty mid-90s they cast him in Species to basically play Mr Blonde again but also as the romantic lead. Legend.
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. Vale Kenneth Colley, one of the great That Guy actors of British film and TV. In memoriam, my essay on Star Wars - Episode VI: Return of the Jedi:.
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. Vale Michael Madsen. Simply the best. In memoriam, my essays on Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs.
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. Vale Michael Madsen and Kenneth Colley. Jesus H Christ, give me a break already.
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Viewing: Dan O'Bannon's The Return of the Living Dead. Yeah, I know, I shoulda seen this before. It's pretty good fun with a surprisingly dark undercurrent, but more than a bit slapdash.
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Viewing: Jesus Franco's Les Possedees du Diable, aka Lorna The Exorcist. Deeply and impressively fucked up. Franco's variation on the Godardian maxim: all you need to make a movie is a girl and a dildo.
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Hoo, boy, we totally showed the fascists in an online meme flame-war.
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Rewatch: Jack Clayton's Something Wicked This Way Comes. Just too flatly directed to really work despite formidable elements - flashes of Bradbury's lyricism, great work from Pryce and Robards. Also casts Pam Grier as every man's dream woman: checks out.
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Rewatch: Michael Carreras' The Lost Continent. A film I love more and more; freefalling through narrative layers with increasingy delirium, but with a coherent parable at the centre and diffused (anti)heroism; lysergic visuals; Bob Mattey monsters; awesome cast.
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Was listening to Revolver in my car on the way up to the movies and hooey boy that's a goddamn album. Also, why is it a 60-year-old album sounds better produced and recorded than so much current music?.
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Also, this had a lot of something I've come to absolutely despise in recent sports-themed movies - using commentators/callers to basically provide constant narration during the races and explain things that are mostly obvious.
Viewing: Joseph Kosinski's F1. About as well-made a movie as I've ever watched, and about as indifferently written; starts dynamite (Whole Lotta Love ftw) but keeps foiling its own momentum to the point where I lost interest before the end.
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Also the film plays so nice with the Formula One (TM) branding it has to avoid having an on-track antagonist.
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Viewing: Joseph Kosinski's F1. About as well-made a movie as I've ever watched, and about as indifferently written; starts dynamite (Whole Lotta Love ftw) but keeps foiling its own momentum to the point where I lost interest before the end.
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Title literalism can be taken too far, of course, but this is a poor comparison: the latter is a poster typeface, the former the actual on-screen title.
Why does everyone freakin type the title of the movie Seven as Se7en? The movie's called Seven, Se7en with a numeral is a design element. You don't have to slavishly recreate the title design. No one writes THE SHiNiNG every time they type The Shining, for God's sake. Cut it out!
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Oh, the hours I spent as a kid reading this book. .
The World Of The Unknown: All About Ghosts . Usborne Books, 1977.
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The US now deep into the era of Constitutional Law: Choose Your Own Adventure.
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Lalo Schifrin's disco cover of the Jaws theme, which is just the most awesome thing:.
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