Philip Brophy

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Akira

Neo-Tokyo. Taiko rebirth. Geinoh Yamashirogumi. ESPer damage. Stadium collapse. White light. Post-humanism.

Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens

Pneumatic deviation. Pendulous impossibility. New world anal. Peter Built. Small town America. Porno-graphology. Audiovisual onslaught.

Crash

Flesh and more flesh. Cars and more cars. Ballardian trauma sex. The head of Jayne Mansfield. The thighs of Holly Hunter. The breath of James Spader. Howard Shore electric.

Heat

Infinite screenic flatness. Los Angeles erogenized. Male war. LAX. Deaf Elk Guitar Orchestra. Granite as acting. De Niro and Pacino - but also Kilmer.

KAIDAN

Dimensional rupture. Toru Takemitsu. Unsound. The sonorum of the world turned inside out. Entities beyond humanism. Pure invisible theatre.

Last Year at Marienbad

The voice, the passage, the world. Ghosts of textuality. Entombing architecture. Chamber purgatory. Corrupted cine-literacy. Die, novel, die.

Magnolia

Song as everything. Voice as all. Fractal emotional detonation. Drama melting down. Irrevocable fate. The carousel of cancer. Yes, it did happen.

Once upon a Time in the West

The twanging godliness of Morricone. The memory of sounded death, breathing until you die. Bronson as Westworld. Templating entrepreneurial hell. Henry Fonda's blue eyes.

The Thing

The thing-ness of everything. Genre plasticity remoulded. Morricone melting. Rob Bottin from Planet X. No, it is not fucking kidding.

West Side Story

Michael Jackson before he existed. The Musical - year one. Manhattan - ground zero danced. Leonard Bernstein paints Manhattan. The outside world staged, perfectly.

Further remarks

Ordered alphabetically. Audiovisually dictated. Written in 15 minutes, with complete indifference to what people call 'cinema'.