A lovely little retrospective of Pat Rocco's pioneering career, made all the better for having Rocco himself freely and happily chatting about his past (filmed before his death in 2018). Hopefully more of his work will be restored and distributed widely in due course, because so much of what is covered here (A nude man dancing on a busy highway! A film about gay love covertly filmed at Disneyland without the park's permission!) is so undeniably essential to the way…
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Dirty Computer 2018
Even though the concept here isn’t entirely novel, and the music-videos-as-memories conceit lacks a certain cohesiveness in order to make this film truly stand on its own, the whole vibe of this “emotion picture” is so uniquely Janelle’s that I was still mesmerized by it all. Every song, every lyric, every choreographic choice, every colour and costume is a different personal statement that reveals a new facet of her incandescent soul, and it streams out to us in such gloriously…
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Spencer 2021
It’s been nearly 25 years since the world lost Princess Diana, and the power of her mythos and legacy does not seem to have diminished an iota. With Netflix’s The Crown winning major awards after introducing Diana’s character in its fourth season, and now Chilean director Pablo Larraín channeling his own take on Diana’s persona, she remains as ubiquitous a presence as she was when she was still alive. We shouldn’t doubt, too, that she will endure even after all…
