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The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover 1989
When I was thirteen years old during an English class, we were assigned a public speaking project where we could discuss any subject of our choosing. Being the precocious viewer I was at that age, I chose Peter Greenaway’s The Cook, The Thief, His Wife & Her Lover, a film I was obsessed with. In many respects Greenaway is Britain’s quintessential arthouse auteur. His expansive, highly idiosyncratic, and exquisitely pretentious body of work had only the equally talented, if somewhat unruly, Derek…
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Luna 1979
I’m fascinated by the idea that Bernado Bertolucci was working out some deeply repressed boy love in his work. You see it in The Conformist; 1900; The Dreamers, and most impressively in La Luna. The scene in the bar where Matthew Barry’s strung-out teen is seduced by an older man while dancing to Night Fever by The Bee Gees is a diamond. And crucially, Tarkovsky hated it, choice quote from his diary: “Saw Bertolucci's La Luna. Monstrous, cheap, vulgar rubbish.” What more do you need?
