Michael Ewins

Histoire(s) du cinephiles des follies. Writing about Akerman, tweeting about Keanu.

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Chantal Akerman: 10 Essential Films. I wrote this for @BFI, before NO HOME MOVIE is released on Friday: https://t.co/5oIHnRXzET

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I highly recommend catching @ultradogme's Peter Bundy programme. It's rare to see such a particular structural rigor (structure as a 'felt' aspect of form) matched to these modest regional subjects. So happens Bundy makes exactly the kinds of films I want to see. That's all.

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@Ronceraille I was in B’Ham yesterday and checked out Waterstones - no luck. I need to ask Voce if it’s anything they could/would stock.

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@DanPatonMusic I suspected they might. I'm around in July, so will nip in.

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@Ronceraille Stratford-upon-Avon. I'm going to be in London in July, so I may hold out and bulk buy. Thanks.

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@molochofficial Do you rate his work? I have Solitary Sex on my tbr.

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@zandiegler Very intrigued by these stills if you’re happy to share.

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@molochofficial I dunno, having the stonking horn for your brother’s wife and sending her packets of love poetry in the mail could be construed as ‘problematic’. Also, threatening to murder her uncle and breaking poor Judge Lord’s ailing heart.

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Write it as it’s happening, while reflecting on the moment of the film: its textures and rhythms, symbols and clichés, how it interacts with other texts, and how all of this is being passed through you, into you, to be carried out into your day, your week, the years of your life.

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If, as a critic, you are trying to help “paint the picture of what an audience can anticipate,” you will not be worth reading. That’s marketing, of which there is already plenty. Don’t project. Reflect. You’ve just had an embodied encounter with a work of art, so relate that.

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We’ve legit lost the plot. I honestly have zero idea what people are looking for these days but there needs to be a major shift in criticism. The movie I saw was well written, well directed, beautifully shot, insanely well performed and the sound was amazing. Are we “film” critics or not. We’re supposed to help paint the picture of what an audience can anticipate and this score is not even close to that picture, objectively.

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The most honest thing you can do as a critic is be honest with yourself. Interrogate your insides, the way the film resides in you, what you find there and how it’s working on you. Stay at the scene of your unfolding reaction, include that.

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@ryanhasbadtaste He specifically attributes that concept to his ten-year-old, so not quite sure what the issue is here…

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@Iacobus_81 Do you know where I can see this, and others by Anne Rees-Mogg? I know Macbeth, A Tragedy and Welcome/Adieu are on BFI Player, but the rest are no longer available to stream. Equally, links on Lux are now dead. Thanks.

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@FilmLandEmpire I’d highly recommend chronological viewing with Wiseman. High School is a perfect introduction.

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How many films aside from Psycho have been repurposed or referenced in other major artworks (especially in mediums other than film)? And what is it about Psycho that continually draws us back to make more out of it? I’d kind of argue the ‘remake’ falls into this category too.

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I'm looking for these films for research but can't locate them via my usual sources. If anyone has copies, I'd appreciate it! https://t.co/6BiFccHtzF

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Extremely exciting that @SecondRunDVD are releasing Kazuo Hara’s EXTREME PRIVATE EROS, one of the best Japanese films of the 1970s, and one of the best documentaries ever made.

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@WillSloanEsq Requiem For A Village, The United States of America, My Father, Always Love Your Man, Grey Gardens, Semiotics of the Kitchen, Welfare, Overlord, French Connection II.

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@thamosdeaf This really nails the appeal of this certain kind of movie. There’s little I love more in cinema than two hours of people looking through boxes and slides and photographs.

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the final scene of Welfare remains one of the most stunning scenes i've ever seen in a film. simply jaw-dropping. RIP to the master of masters. https://t.co/i985CRf8qM

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The way Bud Cort (as the Bond Company Stooge gone pirate) says "We fuckin' stole it, man" when Goldblum asks him about the espresso machine in Life Aquatic-- one of my favorite line readings in all of Wes. RIP