No stranger to bad movies I thought I needed to see cats to understand how something so star studded and popular bombed so hard. 

I went in expecting it to have some redeeming qualities, it became apart very quickly that the story was paper thin and muddled at best. The music was repetitive on a first viewing not opting for any character or storytelling moments of skill or power just repeating monotonous choruses. I mean there’s more power in a…

Go see it right now, and again for good measure. 

Andre Tarkovsky thought that film was about sculpting time, I think 1917 is just that. How do you manage to edit something for narrative moments, tension and feeling when the camera never cuts? How can you get a film that has better cinematography than other movies that have had complete control over each single shot and detail in a scene. 

This isn’t a gimmic, one shot movies have been around…

Probably my 100th watch or so of one of my favourite films of all time. I originally watched this in a grand 1930’s empty cinema on a cold February in a sleepy sea side town and it transported me to another world and kicked off my dreams of making films. With the warmth and magic from seeing this as a child coming back to me every time I watch it, like I’m still sitting in the grand old dream palace…