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★★★★½ (4.5/5) With The Chrysanthemum Variations, director Aurelio Draegert has created a work so audacious, so formally perverse, that it hovers perilously between transcendent cinema and an elaborate act of aesthetic trolling. Yet, by some alchemy of vision and restraint, it achieves the former. This is a film that must be seen to be believed. … Read more
★★☆☆☆ (2/5) There is no question that Mara Luyten’s Ashes of Meridian aspires to the heights of Antonioni and Tarkovsky. Its stately long takes, sepulchral silences, and ostentatious framing are clearly intended to place it within the canon of austere European modernism. The problem is not ambition, but execution: for all its grandeur, the film … Read more
To speak of Christmas television is not merely to catalogue schedules or to rank puddings of content by their calorific familiarity. It is, rather, to engage in a seasonal phenomenology: a study of how the nation, draped in LED lights and post-banquet exhaustion, gathers before the softly humming altar of the television set and submits … Read more
Written in his new language Zarvox, Damien Holt’s much-hyped Fruntlar: A Zarvoxian Love Story premiered last night at the Leicester Square Odeon to what could be generously described as “bewildered applause.” Audience members staggered out into the night muttering things that may have been in Zarvox or simply the verbal aftermath of mild concussion. Below … Read more
Subject: Your Libellous Review of My Client Dear Sir, I am frankly appalled by your continued refusal to reply to me and retract the scandalous falsehoods you published about my client, Mr. Deon Jakari. Your so-called “review” is nothing more than a hatchet job, dripping with elitist sneering and a blatant disregard for the cultural … Read more
To the Editor, I am writing in response to your recent review of Art with Deon and Amber, in which my client, Mr. Deon Jakari was described as lacking “insight to art, literature, or music” This is not only inaccurate,it is a grotesque distortion of the truth, and frankly, an insult to the vibrant cultural … Read more
There was a time when arts television was entrusted to scholars, critics, and people who had at least once been inside a museum without a selfie stick. Those days are gone. Now, in the grand tradition of letting algorithms decide who should speak for culture, Art with Deon and Amber has been handed to Deon … Read more
By Jasper Clive Felix Renton’s Three Minutes of Silence (2015) arrived like a whisper in the cacophony of documentary cinema: a 900-minute dive into the lives of submarine sonar operators, notable chiefly for its refusal to have its subjects utter even a single word. No narration, no interviews, not even a stray grunt, just endless, … Read more
Q: Lysander, hello. You’ve been described as “the ringmaster of Britain’s oddest cinematic circus.” How’s the tent looking these days? A: Oh, the tent’s positively bulging, thank you. Hollywood can keep its endless reboots and beige blockbusters. We’re serving up films with flavour. This year alone, we’ve wrapped The Accordionist’s Revenge, a romantic thriller entirely … Read more
A Major New Twelve-Part Documentary Series Presented by Dr. Horatia Willoughby Swagger Filmic is proud to announce an ambitious new landmark history series, Drizzle to Empire, in which acclaimed historian Dr. Horatia Willoughby (D.Phil., Oxon.) will argue her bold and provocative thesis: that the British Empire was forged not by trade, diplomacy, or military might, … Read more