This is my formal attempt to convince everyone to see this film. I've talked about my love of it on Twitter but haven't fully went into detail and plus many of you haven't seen me talk about it. So here we go. Note, I'm fully aware that nothing I write can properly describe how perfect this is and how genuinely soul crushing it is but I'm going to try. I will do just about anything to convince you to go and see this. So this is my attempt of writing about One More Time With Feeling.
Nick Cave is one of the most unique and absolutely fascinating musicians of all time. His music with the Bad Seeds is some of…

my mum's friend died today. her husband woke up and found her dead. it was the year that they were going to be celebrating their 50th year wedding anniversary, they had all these plans for what they were going to do, they were even gonna go to paris. my mum texted me at about 11 this morning telling me that her friend had died so i called her and asked if she needed to talk about it. when she came home she started crying so hard and i held her in my arms as she told me all about her friend. she told me that her friend had a bad fall last week and how she refused to go to…

The September Movie Challenge!

Film #3

14. Go to your cinema and watch a movie: One More Time With Feeling

I cried in the cinema. In front of a full house of people. Probably the first time I've done that. It was worth it.

From it's raw emotion to it's unexpected comedy, to it's depiction of grief and depression as well as an incredible set of songs, a beautiful black and white visual style, it's ambitious and bewilderingly unique use of 3D, some absolutely gorgeous camerawork and cinematography and some of the most emotionally devastating and quotable monologues makes One More Time With Feeling easily one of the best films of the year.

I may have gone in with slight…

Artists traditionally hate being asked where their ideas come from, but Nick Cave ranks alongside Alan Moore and Lewis Hyde as one of the great taxonomisers of the creative thought process. It's a gift that made 20,000 Days on Earth one of the all-time great music documentaries, and it's a gift that serves him just as well in this film by Andrew Dominik. Unlike the earlier film, Cave is not looking back on his career, but is instead analysing a horrific situation as it unfolds. In the middle of the writing and recording process for his sixteenth studio album with the Bad Seeds, Skeleton Tree, Cave's fifteen-year-old son Arthur fell from a cliff near his Brighton home and died.

Upon…

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When your emotions crash with your craft, that's when art is made. Andrew Dominik's ode to Nick Cave and his troubled life's story is just that. It tells of a man, as human as any other, but delves as deep into his being as Cave does into his own soul by writing and performing his songs. In essence One More Time with Feeling is a concert film, albeit one shot in a studio and stretched over the course of many sessions. Yet, with the banality of its setting, the elusive way in which it is shot (in 3D and through whirling black and white cinematography) tries to reach that certain unfathomable depth of Cave's grief and…

Wow.

This really is a beautiful film - haunting like the album itself, but not as emotionally stressful.

The grief Nick Cave went through making this, and is still going through, was depicted perfectly, and the way he described it as an elastic band resonated so well.

He said most of the stuff he said was just bullshit and nothing prophetic like people say, but it really is some reflective stuff, and shows how uncertain and relative he felt towards his devastation.

Losing someone is awful.
Creation embellished the process, induces healing, and watching the studio recordings of the album, especially with the crisp 3D black and white cinematography, really affected me.

I wish it could've carried more weight at…

This film is a fugue state that completely envelopes you and grips you with sight and with sound. Andrew Dominik has quite possibly created the most beautifully shot documentary film of all time. 

The death of Nick Cave's young son hangs like a pall on every frame. I've never been a huge fan of his music, but have loved his film scores and certainly respected his lyrical mastery. That gift for poetry is on full display here and enhanced by Dominik's gorgeous visuals. The death is barely mentioned in the first 3/4 of the film. There are a few oblique mentions of "the catastrophic event" and "the trauma"...but mostly it's fuzzily in the background like a lurking ghoul. 

Then the…

This is a really well done film that portrays traumatic grief and the creative process. It avoids becoming an exploitation film because all who could be exploited (Cave and his family) were able to remove any part they were in that they didn't like. Cave and his wife, Susie, are very vulnerable at several points when discussing their son, but it's never to an uncomfortable degree (like where they feel like they can't be in front of a camera) and it's not them in their worst, most grief stricken moments either (that would be too invasive).

I think Nick Cave is one of the best and most consistent lyricists ever; he has a way with words like no one else…

Alright, before I get into the movie itself, let me tell you a little story as to how I even ended up watching it. 
About a year ago, while I was in England for a year abroad, I studied Film Studies at college there. Just like now, I was very excited about filmmaking then, which is why I also joined the film club. We‘d watch a movie that somebody recommended and discuss it the following week, you know the drill. When one of the film students in the year above me, Ethan (His profile), recommended The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, my interest in Andrew Dominik grew. I loved the film and decided to buy two…

Been saving this one. The best way to start 2021. I could listen to Nick Cave talk about anything at all for several hours a day, it's like melancholy Australian ASMR. Expressions of grief are something that can so easily fall into the dishonesty of gratuitousness or sentimentality. It takes someone really wise to just sit with his feelings and describe them, not time travel to the past or the future to wallow or escape. That's a gift this film gives all the rest of us non-poets who can't easily give language to our own grieving. I'm so grateful.

Cave loves to write over and over about palms, blood, demons, horses, and fire, and six-shooters, and somehow this stuff never…