IN DEFENCE OF CINEMA

This is not a review. This is just a sincere honest reaction to a film. Nothing but pretense.

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously.

Watching. Studying. Making. Film, I have been consumed and possessed with passion for you. This passion and love of a reproduction is seeping into that which it claims to imitate. Spending so much time with the medium has exposed me to the diverse range of visions of what exactly…

No filmmaker represents a relentless confrontation of the unpleasant social consequences of ultra-conservatism and authoritarian institutions quite like the Alan Clarke. His countless grim examinations into the harsh underbelly of British deviance come directly from the era in which Maggy Thatcher would brutally reshape the UK with an iron first into a new unforgiving cold reality. While the original Television play predates the threshold of Thatcher's coming reign, its supposed more unflinchingly violent and nasty theatrical counterpoint would release amidst…

Unexplainable miracles and anomalous happenings occur everyday, only a fraction of us are lucky enough to have the eyes to see them.

June 10, 1991.

An unidentified and nauseating smell suffocated each room on the third floor and basement of the town hall in a smalltown in North Quebec, only to completely vanish exactly one hour after it first materialized. All eleven of the official town employees who were exposed to the odor experienced an intense reaction, inducing coughing, vomiting…