Straight off I have to say that I know I'm late with this. Posts in previous times have been around new year but just short of midnight on January 16th is the first chance I've had. I can't say I've been doing anything of massive importance, reflecting on the decade at its end or the like. I've been making coffee, sleeping, getting lost in Tokyo and trying to find the time for so many things. When last we spoke I wrote that the thing I wanted most was to better. I don't know that I necessarily am but I do know that at the start of 2010 I was a misanthropic, incapable, hollowed-out crisp packet with a brain that spent the majority of its time beating the shit out of itself and I was resigned to the idea that I'd never see 25. Now a fortnight and change into 2020 I'm certainly happier, more able and I've done things I couldn't have done then, live less vicariously through others who may not even exist in the first place, have made some of my dreams come true. I'm here and I'm improving and another change is that the itchy pinball inside my head has once again started spitting out phrases, single words, desires and a feverish longing to start writing again, be it on here, manifesting itself in increasingly bad poetry, in finishing the half dozen cathartic short stories I scribbled when I still had hair and have been adding to somewhat futilely when I should be drowsy every wet Wednesday since. Perhaps elsewhere. I don't know but if you've any idea answers on a postcard so to speak. Cheers
- The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg - UK)
- Gurkha (Sam Anton - India/Tamil)
- Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi - Spain/France)
- Capharnaüm (Nadine Labaki - Lebanon)
- Loro (Paolo Sorrentino - Italy
- Do Dooni Panj (Harry Bhatti - India/Punjabi)
- Sorry To Bother You (Boots Riley - USA)
- Parasite (Bong Joon-ho - South Korea)
- KGF: Chapter 1 (Prashanth Neel - India/Kannada)
- The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos - UK)
- Super Deluxe (Thiagarajan Kumararaja - India/Tamil)
- Kalank (Abhishek Varman - India/Hindi)
