as per every year, this is the sanctuary/sanitarium of new watches/rewatches/hideous pretensions/haunted whatevers. Touch to be poisoned and tap the glass. whats that weird smell on your fingers? best not mention you recognize it.
previous lists:
when the pavements too hot for your pet dog. fresh air smells deceptively of linen on clotheslines if you could bear to open your eyes and stop dreaming about cliffside gardens, only a peg between your
Neon Green gloop dripping over wounds, in jars, on walls, in syringes, through veins, into the tv, out of the tv, over ur brain, up ur nose and into ur head. A beautiful, otherworldly glow as
something about when the films are right here. when they get the plangent, bricked-in misery correct; it makes for a playful nihilism we're so accustomed to. Feels realer than any american production because we cant hide
films with THAT singular energy you cant explain, like trying to tell someone what the colour green is. completely alien to genre, borders and so powerfully distinctive from anything else that even making this list resembles
wow it hurts!
Something about these doesnt feel lazy to me, but depict a disconnected bit of sentimentality between the viewer and the movie. like the fate of the characters is already written in history somewhere else, doomed or
Spending the end of the year away so im missing Marty Supreme and my local cinema isnt showing Avatar until the new year.
UK Release Dates.
Same as previous years. A cage for all the first time watches or even rewatches of lesser known, underwatched, offbeat, or just general cool ones I like.
Flying around inhaling the droplets, chipping away at their
Strange, DIY little guns assembled onscreen. Long barrels, blocky bodies, ersatz scopes and stocks. plastic, wood, bone, secretive metals. Assembled on-site, in hotels, balconies, warehouses, forests, restaurant toilets, airplanes. Snuck everywhere, single use.
Suggestions Welcome ofc
the top 15 of 2024, the same year that this top 15 was made.
(some are 2023 but their UK release was 2024)
Changing this from just being the yearly list of weirder/lesser watched movies and adding in any favourite first time watches, regardless of ubiquity.
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