London

It strange how something so remarkably pointed can be so impressionistic. You insert yourself into this film and the film inserts its self into you. It’s impressionable and spongy, yet it leaves a lasting mark on you. Every time I need to reorient myself I watch this. I have a feeling everyone who watches it will probably come away with something different- a line that hits in weirdly hard way, a shot that evokes both melancholy and jubilation, its obliqueness and transparency. I love it.

It strange how something so remarkably pointed can be so impressionistic. You insert yourself into this film and the film inserts its self into you. It’s impressionable and spongy, yet it leaves a lasting mark on you. Every time I need to reorient myself I watch this. I have a feeling everyone who watches it will probably come away with something different- a line that hits in weirdly hard way, a shot that evokes both melancholy and jubilation, its obliqueness and transparency. I love it.

Seemed appropriate to formally celebrate the end to the last 14 years by watching this masterpiece.

Seemed appropriate to formally celebrate the end to the last 14 years by watching this masterpiece.

Ambient filmmaking. Specifically targeted Docu-fiction held up as a mirror to wider society. Scofield’s labyrinthine narration going against the grain for Landscape Films while being witty and genuinely insightful. A very special film. 

I’d forgotten just how much I love this film. I loved it when I watched it when I was younger even though I didn’t understand it but now I truly and utterly adore it. 

It’s also amusing that, if you’re flippant enough, you can boil down Robinson’s major problem with London to the fact that it’s not Paris. 

“It always seems to me that I should be happy anywhere but where I am”

Ambient filmmaking. Specifically targeted Docu-fiction held up as a mirror to wider society. Scofield’s labyrinthine narration going against the grain for Landscape Films while being witty and genuinely insightful. A very special film. 

I’d forgotten just how much I love this film. I loved it when I watched it when I was younger even though I didn’t understand it but now I truly and utterly adore it. 

It’s also amusing that, if you’re flippant enough, you can boil down Robinson’s major problem with London to the fact that it’s not Paris. 

“It always seems to me that I should be happy anywhere but where I am”