Hard Truths Review

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Lucy takes a short swing at the latest from Mike Leigh, perhaps our greatest living filmmaker

Nowhere Film Club #5 - Querelle

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A bristling work of transgressive homoeroticism, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film Querelle (1982) stands tall as one of his boldest, most formidable cinematic expressions.

For David Lynch

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David Lynch passed away today. He was 78.

On Sexual Repression and Tetsuo: The Iron Man

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Tetsuo is a great film. Tetsuo is a film about sex. It is a film about sexual repression and how you can find purpose and love in embracing the parts of your sexuality which are abject and freakish.

Nowhere Film Club #2 - Black Christmas

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Slasher films are about male killers inflicting sexually charged violence upon female victims, as punishment for their sexuality. Black Christmas, however, presents an overtly feminist political subtext.

Carnage for Christmas Review

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There is a tension in Carnage between Mackay’s clear desire to create a new language of transgender cinema versus her tendency towards homage and pastiche. Here, the pastiche wins.