Shock Corridor

Howdy, in case the poster isn't clear enough, I saw  Only Lovers Left Alive  (Jim Jarmusch, 2013) recently and being who I am, I now feel oddly compelled to talk at you about it.  I'll shout **SPOILERS**  at this point but I'm going to have to add that if anything spoils this film for you then we probably wouldn't get on very well if we were to meet at say a fashion show, harvest festival or even in a pub. The film was directed by Jim Jarmusch. Jim Jarmusch is a dude. He is effortlessly cool and so are his films: Down by Law (1986), Mystery Train (1989), Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai (1999), The Limits of Control (2009), and the rest drip and ooze cool, although cool generally isn't the best way to describe things that drip or ooze. That said, it would be a mistake to think that his films are superficial. They can meander, they can be sharp, they can digress, they can be powerful and they can be flippant; they are like th...

Howdy. Offt! March is looking like a very strong month of films at the cinema and I'll tell you what, I'm going to try and see them, and then write about them and then…ehh…maybe watch a bit o' telly or something. What is catching my eye in particular is: Nymphomaniac (parts I and II) (Lars von Trier, 2013);  Her   (Spike Jonze, 2013);  Only Lovers Left Alive   (Jim Jarmusch, 2013), The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014) and  Under the Skin  (Jonathan Glazer, 2013) Let's kick this of with Nymphomaniac  (Lars von Trier, 2013). In typical style there was a buzz around - no! A furore - No! A brouhaha (doesn't fit as well as furore but I like the sound of it) around the film.  The controversy, or expectation, or umbrage, or what ever swell of feeling, is often stimulated in no small part by von Trier himself (see the publicity shot) . This time Lars von Trier has remained muted about the film in a self...