The Discarded Image

Cinema is the only church I know.
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Created by Julian Palmer

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RIP the great Monica Vitti. The Queen and muse of Antonioni's monumental run from L'Avventura, to La Notte, L'Eclisse and Il Deserto Rosso. A whole new cinematic vocabulary was formed around and in collaboration with her. If you haven't seen those films I strongly recommend you do!

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After a pretty calamitous 2020 it felt like film started to get its groove back this year. I think my top 3 express my preference for directors with bold styles, working with enough of a budget to ensure they are at the peak of their powers. And above all using their technical mastery in service of conveying emotion. I hope to cover some of the films on this list in the new year. Let me know if there's any you'd like to see videos of. Or if there are films you loved I missed out.

There's a bunch of films that are making some people's lists that I haven't been able to see yet that would have been strong contenders, namely--The Souvenir Part II, Memoria, Parallel Mothers, Red Rocket, A Hero, The Worst Person in the World, France, and Benedetta.

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Just saw The French Dispatch again. It's definitely the film of the year for me thus far, though there's still a few on the near horizon I'm really excited about, like Licorice Pizza, The Souvenir Part II, A Hero, Petite Maman, and Titane, hell, West Side Story too (a Spielberg musical will be pure pleasure on a craft level). On Wes Anderson, check out my latest video if you haven't. Are there any films from this year that have really stuck out for you? Others I've liked to varying degrees are The Green Knight, Zola, Minari, Dune, The Velvet Underground, The Sparks Brothers, and The Card Counter. I should really cover some of them. My video essay output has been frustratingly sporadic this year I know. Feels like cinema is making a comeback though! And hopefully the channel can keep up.

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I'm considering doing some long form content, so I can talk more in-depth about subjects - like having video conversations with my co-writer Manuela Lazic, and potentially others in the film/critical community. The nature of the way I do video essays is due to the video's length, and the time it takes to make, the analysis is invariably limited. Would you be interested in this type of content on the channel?

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So me and frequent co-collaborator Manuela Lazic had a conversation recently about a film and director we're both sort of obsessed with. It's on her channel You Gotta Act - the name of which comes from the film we discuss, Lord Brian De Palma's BODY DOUBLE - https://youtu.be/5OM6fxo9cYI

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Would you like to see more of the DECONSTRUCTING FUNNY series this year? We had to take a bit of a hiatus due to Covid, but we'd like to get it going again.

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First great first watch of 2021 is ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS. Feel like I've slept on Luchino Visconti a bit - having not watched as much of his work as Antonioni or Fellini, but I will right that wrong in the coming weeks.

I know Scorsese's favourite is The Leopard, but you can see the influence of this one more clearly in his work - particularly Mean Streets and Raging Bull. And it's like operatic neo-realism, which is very much Marty's bag too.