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Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) 2022
Rote (Noel Gallagher, why are you there?) and pretty—very much appreciate that it hits on an absolute downer and ends immediately, not subjecting us to a exhibition and coffee table book cultural renaissance uplifting coda. Also unspoken dialectic(?) is this being made by a guy who would give a bunch of these "bloated excess" rockers, as well as Those Who Came After, a new visual idiom.
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ABBA: The Movie 1977
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ABBA – The Movie: A ludicrous yarn about a real-life future sex criminal DJ trying to get an interview with a band in the most unprofessional way possible. Also one of the most exciting film experiences I've ever had.
ABBA are... the definition of acquired taste.
The definition of exacting, of commercial, of a certain kind of mass mainstreaming of culture that just doesn't exist any more, where every rough edge is shorn off lest it offend someone,…
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Blight 1996
Incredible. It seems simultaneously obvious and trite to say this, but British film has such a weird, inglorious and shoddy reputation. Be it the broadsides from the Cahiers crowd (from Truffaut's assertion that British cinema was a "contradiction in terms" to Godard's withering assessment in the 5th part of Histoire(s)), or our own blinkered sense of what a British film can be (the holy trinity of Kitchen Sink Miserablism, Gangsterism and Heritage film), but there's a messy adventurous lineage that…