I know I can be harsh when I talk about a film, and I feel guilty about judging the work of the many people that put their dedication and effort into it. Things can go wrong in anybody’s job, and for a number of reasons.
In some of these instances, it may turn out that the film is the only one the director, or the writer, ever made. Or the one that ended a promising career. In these cases, I always wonder what happened; did the person realise the job was not for them? Did they keep their passion but frustratingly weren’t given another chance?

This episode of Weekly visions is brought to you by my irritation at learning that Damian McCarthy’s Hokum will not be released in cinemas in Belgium, so I will have to wait until at some point it comes to VOD.

After more than two years of preparing these weekly round-ups, I’ve found myself going back often to past editions to check what exactly my feelings about films were shortly after watching them. It’s interesting that, quite often, I find that my current recollection diverges from my thoughts at the time.
To make this re-discovery easier, I have automated the creation of an index where all the films are sorted alphabetically and linked to their relevant post.

In my end-of-year roundup of the software I use, I mentioned that Lire was my RSS feed reader of choice, because despite a few defects, it allowed me to view posts in their natural environment, that is, by opening a web view on the author’s website; I prefer this way, to enjoy the blog’s personality, instead of seeing all posts reduced to the same flat-and-simple formatting.

Indecision was the real winner this week, as I started watching multiple films and abandoned them in impatience. I ever get to finish Sisu 2, you’ll be the first to know.

Here are the few films I managed to watch when I was not binging on Taskmaster episodes on YouTube.

To celebrate my (as far as I know) permanent return to Brussels, I considered subscribing to, or at least going to a screening at, La Cinematek, the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique, where classic films are preserved and screened every day.
I didn’t find any screening I fancied, and I’m still considering supporting the institution with a subscription (that only entitles to a reduced entry ticket), but out of curiosity I followed the link to its Official YouTube channel.

I’ve realised I’ve been writing these weekly recaps of my film consumption for a little longer than two years, and it was only a matter of time before I reached the third recorded viewing of a movie.

Here is another round of Greek weirdness and final destinations

This post comes a bit late because I managed to accidentally destroy the first completed version of it before publishing it. On the bright side, I think this remake is (mostly) better than the original.