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Directed by JOHN WATERS Starring DIVINE, DAVID LOCHARY, MINK STOLE Released 17 MARCH, 1972 A beat-up mobile home is plonked in barren rural Maryland. Its after-market paint job is soot grey, matte, drab as the bald trees out back (we really are in “the sticks”). The whole tableau would be quite depresso were it not for the statement-pastel panels wrapped around the trailer in Pepto-Bismol pink – the same shade as the flamboyance of plastic flamingos standing sentinel to this, Pandora’s trash can. Inside lurk suburban sex pests, gender gremlins, an egg fetishist and the filthiest person alive – tabloid certified! They’re ready and waiting to perform – per the film’s tagline – “an exercise in poor taste”. First uncaged in 1972, Pink Flamingos details the exploits of two warring filthfluencer clans: one, a…

In Lewis Carroll’s 1865 fantasy novel ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’, a Caterpillar is seen puffing on a hookah. He tells Alice to take a bite of his mushroom, different sides of which have opposite effects. “One pill makes you larger / And one pill makes you small,” opens Jefferson Airplane’s song ‘White Rabbit’, which uses the famous Caterpillar scene to describe the different trips hallucinogens can take you on. Modern readings of the story, plus the onset of meme culture, have led Alice to be seen as a metaphorical evocation of the effect that drugs can have on the human psyche. In the Wachowski sisters’ 1999 film, The Matrix, awe-inspiring cyberwarrior Morpheus warns his new charge, Neo, that the trip he is about to take may not be easy, but…

When thinking of theme park attractions adapted into films, most minds usually wander over to Disney’s global phenomenon Pirates of the Caribbean or more recently the Dwayne Johnson vehicle Jungle Cruise. But before Jack Sparrow made Johnny Depp a megastar, and long before the days of corporate hegemony mining the vaults for every little bit of potentially valuable intellectual property (the year 2000), Brian De Palma made Mission to Mars. The film was based on the forgotten Disneyland ride of the same name which took guests on a simulated trip to Mars via an auditorium encircled with cinema screens and seats designed to mimic the rumble of riding to space. Often dismissed as an icy cynic, De Palma had earlier flirted with blockbuster filmmaking with 1996’s Mission: Impossible, where he…

The highest-grossing film of all time in the Philippines to date, 2019’s Hello, Love, Goodbye, has all the makings of a typical romantic comedy: it has a tried-and-tested boy-meets-girl storyline; stars two of the most sought-after actors from the the country’s biggest broadcasting networks, and was produced by a top film studio, Star Cinema. And it is, for all intent and purpose, a traditional rom-com. Though the film’s alignment to this typically lightweight genre made it more effective in blossoming into a subversive migrant melodrama. Hello, Love, Goodbye tells the story of Joy Fabregas, a woman who completes a nursing degree in the Philippines but has to settle for working as a domestic helper in Hong Kong to provide for her family. Portrayed by Kathryn Bernardo, arguably one of the…

Directed by ED PERKINS Released 30 JUNE ANTICIPATION. Could you get any more beige than a documentary about Diana? .2 ENJOYMENT. The good kind of beige, of trenchcoats and social commentary.3 IN RETROSPECT. Offers a kaleidoscope of new perspectives on a worn-out establishment.4 “Petition for the canonisation of Lady Di?” lies Amelie, as she knocks on doors in her technicolour world, far from the sun-bleached cornershop window of this documentary. But the Princess may as well be Saint Diana – enshrined in pop culture and able to transcend any criticism levelled at her. Ed Perkins’ The Princess cracks the eggshell of that baffling magnetism – this was a person who, as one embittered reporter remarks within the film, “Called a press conference to tell people to leave her alone.” But for all…

Directed by MARTIN BOURBOULON Starring EMMA MACKEY, PIERRE DELADONCHAMPS, ROMAIN DURIS Released 12 AUGUST ANTICIPATION. [Eiffel 65 singer voice] “Yo, listen up, here’s a story…” 3 ENJOYMENT. “Gustave Eiffel has to think about his entire sex life before he engineers.2” IN RETROSPECT. A promising taste of Emma Mackey’s potential as a French-language film star, but little else.2 Eiffel isn’t so much a biopic of French engineer Gustave Eiffel (played here by Romain Duris), but rather a work of fiction inspired by certain historical facts. It posits why exactly Eiffel had a sudden change of heart in becoming involved with the metal tower project that would adopt his name after initially abstaining. The facts, according to the film, are as such: during construction of a bridge in Bordeaux in 1860, Eiffel had a passionate…

Directed by PIETRO MARCELLO, FRANCESCO MUNZI, ALICE ROHRWACHER Released 8 JULY ANTICIPATION. Italian teens do vox-pops. Moderately intriguing, but is it a movie?3 ENJOYMENT. An engaging amalgam of the insightful and the inane, captured pre- and post-pandemic.4 IN RETROSPECT. The visual grace notes linger in the memory, though is a more rigorous framework required?3 In the autumn of 2020, a trio of Italian filmmakers traversed their country to take the emotional and psychological temperature of Italian adolescents. Those who were on the cusp of adulthood, what did they see ahead of them? What were their aspirations, their fears? If the directors could distract them from their phones long enough to offer an opinion. To be fair, the ragazzi at least make an effort to engage with the questions, as cameras encounter them…

Directed by TODD STEPHENS Starring UDO KIER, JENNIFER COOLIDGE, ERIC EISENBREY Released 10 JUNE ANTICIPATION. Udo Kier finally gets the leading man role he’s always deserved.4 ENJOYMENT. With its warmth and humour, this is Todd Stephens most mature film to date.4 IN RETROSPECT. A poised Kier masters his turn as an older gay man facing up to his past.4 Udo Kier steps into the spotlight of an empty theatre in the opening moments of Swan Song, his all-white outfit and chunk rings glistening as he professes: “I’m back.” The sentiment is certainly true for the 77-year-old cult actor who is placed centre stage in Todd Stephens’ bittersweet comedy-drama. This is a long-awaited leading role for Kier, whose appearances in the likes of My Own Private Idaho, Blood For Dracula and the 1977 Suspiria…

Directed by JUSTIN KURZEL Starring CALEB LANDRY JONES, JUDY DAVIS, ANTHONY LAPAGLIA Released 1 JULY ANTICIPATION. Australia’s Justin Kurzel returns to true crime territory.4 ENJOYMENT. Atmospheric and well acted, but to what end?2 IN RETROSPECT. Another frustrating endeavour to empathetically tell a killer’s story.2 Justin Kurzel is quickly becoming the foremost cinematic chronicler of Australian true crime. Having kicked off his directing career in 2011 with Snowtown, recalling the series of murders committed in and around Adelaide in the 1990s, he covered the exploits of outlaw Ned Kelly in his last feature, True History of the Kelly Gang, in 2019. His fifth film, Nitram, returns to this territory by centring on the ’96 Port Arthur massacre – the worst mass shooting in Australian history. It saw 35 people killed and a further 23…

Directed by EDUARDO COUTINHO Blu-ray OUT NOW few films have as compelling a production story as Man Marked For Death, Twenty Years Later. In 1964, Eduardo Coutinho begun production in northeast Brazil of a fictionalised portrait of Joao Pedro Teixeira, the leader of a local land rights activist group who was murdered by military police acting on the orders of local landowners. The film’s course changed dramatically following a right wing coup, resulting in arrests of the crew and the disappearance of the film’s main actress, Teixeira’s wife Elizabeth. Twenty years later, granted the endorsement of the government of the time, Coutinho returned to the region to continue making the story that he had originally intended, but also to show what happened in the interim. After successfully tracking down Elizabeth, he…

Directed by ROBERT DOWNEY SR Starring STAN GOTTLIEB, ALLEN GARFIELD, ARCHIE RUSSELL Blu-ray/DVD Released 18 JULY A comedy created in the absurdist mode that underground filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. was famed for, Putney Swope uses a clever starting concept as a point from which to spiral outward. After the unexpected death of the firm’s boss, Putney Swope (played by Arnold Johnson but jarringly overdubbed by the director), the sole Black employee of a Madison Avenue advertising firm, finds himself accidentally elected president. He fires all existing staff and hires a new entirely Black workforce, pushing the organisation in a bold new revolutionary direction. Mixing unflinching satire with moments which are more wilfully zany, Putney Swope fires off gags at a rapid rate and to varying degrees of efficacy. The best moments are those…

It’s easy to be offensive and sink to base humour in the name of art, but to do it with panache is where the real genius of filthy filmmaking lies. The name most synonymous with filth is, of course, our man John Waters, whose urge to cackle in the face of good taste is commendable, and who has been quoted as saying, “If someone vomits watching one of my films, it’s like getting a standing ovation.” What follows is a journey through the most bleurgh-inducing cinematic alchemists – those audacious filmmakers who have been committed to pushing the limits of bad taste and crushing taboos with the heel of their boot. Most have the canny ability of pissing off the censors, some have been accepted by the mainstream, but all…

Film critic Roger Ebert once wrote that, “most soap operas are aimed at audiences who are fascinated by the subject of sex, but who want it presented in a disapproving way.” This maxim applies to most of the melodramatic blockbusters churned out by Hollywood in the late 1960s. Producers were ready to capitalise on the sex appeal of naked movie stars but they didn’t want to challenge the prevailing sexual mores of the day. Even though the Motion Picture Production Code, which banned the presentation of “licentious or suggestive nudity,” had been abandoned in 1968, there were still plenty of filmgoers who thought of sexually confident women as dirty, immoral harlots. They accepted the fact that violence and nudity had become more commonplace on screen, but they weren’t open to…

Directed by WARWICK ROSS, ROBERT COE Starring JOSEPH DHAFANA, MARLVIN GWESE, PARDON TAKUZU Released 12 AUGUST Warwick Ross and Robert Coe’s Blind Ambition follows four refugees on the lead up to their becoming the first ever Zimbabwean team to compete in the World Wine Tasting Championship. Joseph, Marlvin, Pardon and Tinashe all fled from Zimbabwe to South Africa around a decade before their team was formed in order to escape the turmoil in their home country. Initially entering the hospitality industry to support their families, the four men progressed from waiters to sommeliers due to their acquired taste in wine, consequentially abandoning the paths they had set out for their new lives in order to fully commit themselves to their craft. Surprisingly none of the four had met one another before moving to…

Directed by JACQUELINE LENTZOU Starring SOFIA KOKKALI, NIKOS HANAKOULAS, LAZAROS GEORGAKOPOULOS Released 24 JUNE Asn emotionally estranged relationship between a young woman and her father makes for a fairly simple premise, yet one that assumes a distinctive and heartfelt tenderness when filtered through the lens of filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou. Hers is a cinematic language of delicate minimalism, of finding poetry within pockets of the mundane, and the beauty of her debut feature is sustained in the details of its stunning 35mm visuals. Sofia Kokkali gives a phenomenal performance as Artemis, a young woman who tentatively returns to her childhood home as she finds out that her father Paris (Lazaros Georgakopoulos) has been diagnosed with MS after suffering a severe stroke. Through the act of caregiving, the intricate Gordian knot that manifested in Artemis’…

Directed by MICHELANGELO FRAMMARTINO Starring PAOLO COSSI, JACOPO ELIA, NICOLA LANZA Released OUT NOW ANTICIPATION. It’s been an age since Frammartino’s previous film. What’s taking him so long?4 ENJOYMENT. Okay, fair play. An astonishing, James Cameronstyle document of a 1960s spelunking escapade.5 IN RETROSPECT. A film about the power of intricate detail and the inherent artistry in pathfinding discovery.5 It has been 11 long years since the Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Frammartino graced us with his wonderful, goat-filled doc-fiction hybrid, Le Quattro Volte, but the wait has been worth it. Il Buco is translated as “The Hole”, and it is a film about people who dedicate their lives to discovery, and people who dedicate their lives to chronicling discovery. There’s a way of watching Il Buco that may take a little time to attune…

Directed by JONAS CARPIGNANO Starring SWAMY ROTOLO, CLAUDIO ROTOLO, GRECIA ROTOLO Released 15 JULY ANTICIPATION. Keen to see this Directors’ Fortnight awardwinner from the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.4 ENJOYMENT. Impossible to suspend disbelief at the sight of a Nokia brick phone smashing.3 IN RETROSPECT. A solid film bolstered by its gripping central performance.3 Just as Norway’s Joachim Trier recently completed his Oslo trilogy with The Worst Person in the World, Jonas Carpignano has wrapped up his own Calabrian triptych with new film A Chiara. It’s a unique addition to the well-trodden milieu of mafia thrillers, one whose originality is channelled through its Italian neorealist approach. As such, it’s a film that brims with honesty as it exposes a complicated political landscape, as well as the challenges ordinary people are left to endure in…

Directed by LUCILE HADŽIHALILOVIĆ Starring PAUL HILTON, ROMANE HEMELAERS, ALEX LAWTHER Released 10 JUNE ANTICIPATION. After Evolution, I’ll watch anything with Lucile Hadžihalilovi?’s fingerprints on it.4 ENJOYMENT. Bizarre, sensual, but sometimes too knotty for its own good.3 IN RETROSPECT. Marks an emotional departure from the director while preserving her befuddling MO.3 It would be reductive, though not untrue, to say that Lucile Hadžihalilovi? enjoys disturbing her audience. Her first two features, Innocence and Evolution, are slow-moving (often cruelly so) and plaited with enough obscurity and body horror to send bile inching up viewers’ throats. But her aim, as further evidenced by Earwig, is to disorient her audience, not simply frighten them. This generous adaptation of Brian Catling’s novella of the same name sees Aalbert Scellinc (Paul Hilton), a stoic middle-aged man in postwar…

Directed by PANAH PANAHI Starring PANTEA PANAHIHA, HASAN MAJUNI, AMIN SIMIAR Released 29 JULY ANTICIPATION. Does Panahi Jr have something unique in store?3 ENJOYMENT. Wholly compelling and with dashes of Iranian New Wave lyricism. Plus a very excellent dog.4 IN RETROSPECT. A big win for nepotism.4 Nothing says Iranian New Wave like cramped road trips, mesmerising wide shots, long takes, a leisurely pace, child actors and deceptively low narrative stakes that escalate into much more complicated conundrums. While containing all the ingredients mentioned above, Panah Panahi’s beautifully-crafted debut feature is compositionally robust, with phenomenal camerawork, grading and blocking to boot. The film’s political agenda and overall critique of the predicaments of Iranian society and politics remain elusive enough as to be able to circumvent the stringent auspices of government censors. In this affecting…

Directed by STEVEN ARNOLD Starring PANDORA, STEVE SOLBERG, RONALD FARRELL Blu-ray OUT NOW The only feature film made by multidisciplinary artist Steven Arnold, Luminous Procuress earned its maker the approval of Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol plus various museum and film festival accolades, but also marked the end of his period of experimentation with film. Working mostly in photography after, Arnold died in 1994, six years after an AIDS diagnosis. The film sees two men being welcomed into a bordello/commune by its elegantly decorated owner, then treated to all of the sex, drugs, occultism and cabaret that the space has to offer. While first the pair are wide-eyed and fully clothed, soon they are wide-pupilled and naked – no longer shy observers of this circle but unshackled card-carrying members. Created following a…

Time moves differently on the French Riveria, to the point that 12 days can seem like a very long time when you’re wheels down at Aéroport de Nice lugging a 20-kilo suitcase behind you. It used to be easy to divide the day by the well-appointed press screenings, but changes to scheduling now mean you can be going into a cinema for your first film of the day at 8.30am and heading back home at midnight. It’s possible to cram your day full of films at Cannes if you’re so inclined, and the benefit of the festival’s recent switch from queuing to ticketed screenings – introduced last year – means the infamous hierachy system is essentially a thing of the past (even if they still give you a ‘rank’ on…

Rocky Soraya’s Indonesian 2016 horror film The Doll begins with a similarly staged riff to the cold open of James Wan’s The Conjuring from 2013. Sitting together on a couch, a trio of young people recount the supernatural troubles they’ve experienced in their home since taking in an unquestionably creepy-looking doll (frazzled blonde pigtails, burnt out eye sockets). This tale is shown to us through a series of flashbacks in which things go bump in the night, childish handwritten notes about playing hide and seek appear, and the youngest of the group is viciously attacked by an unseen force. It is addressed to an intrepid duo of paranormal investigators. “Maybe you can help us,” the eldest girl eventually pleads. Released in the days before Halloween, The Doll was a homegrown…

Directed by MIA HANSEN-LOVE Starring VICKY KRIEPS, TIM ROTH, MIA WASIKOWSKA Released OUT NOW Few films show so much disdain for men as Bergman Island. Set on the Swedish island of Farö where Ingmar Bergman lived, Mia Hansen-Love uses the framework of a couple’s working holiday to dissect the directorial titan and his notorious personal life. So snide is Hansen-Love’s critique that male audiences will likely watch the film blissfully unaware of its subtle deconstruction of masculine behaviour and the patriarchal social system that enables it. In Bergman Island, Amy (Mia Wasikowska) tells Joseph (Anders Danielsen Lie) that she is different from him because she loves two people, while he merely has sex with multiple partners. Given that their dialogue is the fabrication of filmmaker Chris (Vicky Krieps), there is a level of…

Directed by NINJA THYBERG Starring SOFIA KAPPEL, EVELYN CLAIRE, MARK SPIEGLER Released 15 JUNE ANTICIPATION. Thyberg’s 2013 short of the same name was a strong calling card.4 ENJOYMENT. A (porn) star is born in this well-researched drama with a sumptuous sting.4 IN RETROSPECT. Feels like the first film of its kind.4 From its very opening, Pleasure denies its viewers dominance: the kind inherent to pornographic consumption, as the black screen vibrates with moans, growling and affirmations of a suitably nasty kind. Deprived of explicit imagery but peppered with salacious – and ultimately banal – ‘porn talk’, the establishing shot hints at the provocative game Swedish filmmaker Ninja Thyberg invites the audience to with her feature debut. Pleasure is both sweet and sour as a coming-of-age story, following 19-year old Swede Linnéa (Sofia Kappel)…

Directed by FRANÇOIS OZON Starring SOPHIE MARCEAU, ANDRÉ DUSSOLLIER, GÉRALDINE PAILHAS Released 17 JUNE There’s something deeply alienating about the work of French cinematic odd-jobber François Ozon. Despite a preternatural ability to handle a range of tones and styles, there’s a nihilism at the core of his cinematic project. Everything Went Fine is another robust piece of coffee table arthouse fare which deals with the morals, ethics and emotions that come with the legally-tortuous act of assisted suicide. It is an adaptation of the 2013 memoir by the late French author and screenwriter Emmanuele Bernheim, dourly played here by Sophie Marceau. It concerns the decision of her father (a fiery André Dossollier) to be taken to a specialist clinic in Switzerland following a stroke and to have his life prematurely terminated. What’s strange…

Directed by JESSICA BESHIR Starring MURANO MLBB, KAWA SHERIF, SALIH SIGIRCI Released 24 JUNE Ethiopian legend tells of Azurkherlaini, an old Amir who, in order to conquer his fear, journeyed in search of Maoul Hayat – the water of eternal life. It’s this tale that powers Jessica Beshir’s Faya Dayi, a dreamlike docu-drama where ancient myth melds with harsh reality, making for a hauntingly beautiful portrait. The Ethiopia of old has changed. Coffee crops have now been replaced with khat, a stimulant leaf that acts as a psychoactive drug. Initially discovered and used by the Sufi Imams as a means of elevating religious mediation, khat now forms Ethiopia’s most lucrative cash crop. People of all ages chew the plant in order to reach Merkhana – a high that gifts a reprieve from the…

Directed by JIM ARCHER Starring DAVID EARL, CHRIS HAYWARD, LOUISE BREALEY Released 8 JULY ANTICIPATION. This went down well at Sundance but might be too kooky for its own good.3 ENJOYMENT. Slight but sweet and often laugh-out-loud funny.3 IN RETROSPECT. Doesn’t quite justify feature length but it’s hard to resist a seven foot tall robot in a hula skirt.3 Acrowd-pleaser at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, Brian and Charles will perhaps test the patience of anyone with an allergy to all things twee. Harold and Maude meets Wallace and Gromit starring a robot who loves cabbages might sound unbearably quirky, but there’s much to enjoy in this funny, small-scale fable about self-discovery and letting go. Brian (David Earl), an affable and odd amateur inventor, is holed up in a cottage in the wintry…

Directed by DAMIEN ODOUL Starring THEO KERMEL, PIERRE MEUNIER, SONIA GONDRY Released 24 JUNE ANTICIPATION. A 2021 Berlin Film Festival selection with a potentially interesting narrative.3 ENJOYMENT. Intriguing in parts but difficult to fully grasp.3 IN RETROSPECT. The “mystical disability trope” at play here ultimately clouds the overall appeal.2 There is something Ulyssian about Damien Odoul’s ninth feature film Theo and the Metamorphosis. Much like Joyce’s epic in its wandering narrative progression and general opaqueness, the film is a one-man odyssey: over the course of a day, hero Theo (Theo Kermel, an actor with Down’s syndrome), who goes by TO, encounters family, friends, strange visions and memories in the depths of a French forest. TO, in his late twenties, lives with his father (Pierre Meunier) in an isolated wooden cottage, all Grand Designs…

Directed by BAZ LUHRMANN Starring AUSTIN BUTLER, TOM HANKS, OLIVIA DEJONGE Released 24 JUNE No one does tacky opulence quite like Baz Luhrmann. He and Elvis Presley – the King of rock’n’ roll and he of the bedazzled jumpsuit – is surely a match made in garish heaven. This biographical film doesn’t show us the full scope of Elvis’ life, work and unprecedented influence on American culture. Instead, it opts to give the fairy tale version. After a whistle-stop tour through the early influences that would forever mark the life of Elvis Aaron Presley – an impoverished upbringing, a devotion to his momma, the lifelong influence of Black music – we are teased glimpses of the man who would become the King: a forearm; a magenta suit; a jet-black strand of hair; a…

Directed by SOPHIE HYDE Starring EMMA THOMPSON, DARYL MCCORMACK, ISABELLA LAUGHLAND Released 17 JUNE Emma Thompson plays to her formidable strengths as Nancy, a caustic but kind RE teacher, recently widowed, who has lived a sexually-unfulfilled existence. She has never orgasmed, given or received oral sex or even attempted a position beyond dutiful missionary with her “boring” exhusband. Now freed from her matrimonial bonds she hires Leo Grande so she can finally experience some of the sexual exhilaration that has long eluded her. Sophie Hyde’s Good Luck to You, Leo Grande charts Nancy’s voyage of sexual and self-discovery across a series of meeting the two have at a chic hotel. Leo has an almost angelic presence as an insightful, warm man who loves his job. Where Nancy worries she has hired a “sex-trafficked…

Directed by THEODORE WITCHER Starring LARENZ TATE, NIA LONG, ISAIAH WASHINGTON Blu-ray/DVD OUT NOW Set within a community of artists and poets in Chicago, love jones captures the meet-cute between poet Darius (Larenz Tate) and photographer Nina (Nia Long), and the resulting will-they-won’t-they relationship that unfolds. Focusing on a college-educated, poetry-performing, jazz record-buying, young professional milieu, love jones’ producers purportedly wanted to make “a modern film about African-American life that did not use violence and recreational drugs as elements in the story.” While such a thing should already have become commonplace by this point, it is admittedly striking to see a populist ’90s film from a Black filmmaker about ordinary romance and friendship. It is unjust that, to date, love jones is the only film that writer-director Theodore Witcher has been able…

Directed by BRUNO DUMONT Starring DAVID WISSAK, YEKATERINA GOLUBEVA, JEREMY DAVIES Blu-ray/DVD OUT NOW A New French Extremity-era film that is both extreme, and extremely of its era. Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms is a film that pulls no punches, with a shock ending of the sort that became so prevalent in arthouse filmmaking at the beginning of the millennium that they stopped being shocking. In the film, which uses slowness and distance as an aesthetic strategy, David (David Wissak), a photographer and Katia (Yekaterina Golubeva), his partner, drive through various Californian desert landscapes, passing through a series of long, empty roads, beat-up truck stops and deserted motels that together make for a beguiling vision of ordinary bleakness. Ostensibly scouting for possible locations that David can shoot, the couple mainly instead just move…

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