jack-unknown

Life of London, 18 Jan 2004

London's underground: a network of arteries carry the very soul of London through them and "Tube Tales" could not demonstrate this more poignantly. This melee of short and sharp films covers the experience's of the young and the old, the curios and the odd, the sad and the hilarious.
It is a film that anyone with a knowledge and experience of the tube can find affinity, but whole heartedly interesting and enjoyable for all. Right from the gorgeous shush and clunk as the doors close, mechanically, mundanely, one can empaphise with so much that the film represents; with the drugery of the tube, the inderviduality of its passangers and even to the short fleeting fantasies of the… Read more

mortifying yet essential, 13 Jan 2004

Baise-Moi is the most shocking and one of the most brutal films I have ever encountered, yet at the same time it is one which deserves much credit.
The plot is based around the inversion of power in male-female relationships, one where throughout history men have typically dominated. The rape scene near the opening of the film is brutal and mortifying, something I found hard to watch. This scene is pornographic and very explicit, it is not for the faint hearted and it is not the usual sort of porn so don't think it is. Yet it is appropraite like the other sex scenes in the piece in that it helps incubate the brutal and raw edge the film posesses. Rape is something where one person… Read more