As you will know, latterly on my lonely dawg walks I have taken to listening to the libertarian feminist pacifist humanist teetotal podcast Double Feature and its swearwordy young American co-hosts opining on movies from whatever point of view they like, especially when they don't know what the hell they are talking about. It sells itself as the longest continued running Podcast in human history - five years every week without fail. And who's arguing with that?
The link is here.
On a recent episode they talked about the Movie Accessibility Index, making the scary point that things are bad when David Lynch movies are in fact fairly accessible. Check out the link here. I can readily cope with Level Three (Herzog, Malick, Kurosawa, Lynch) but start to fade out fast after Fassbinder in Level Four. Things get very mysterious down in Level Five and then Level Infinity ("highly experimental or abstract").
Meanwhile here is a good new list over at the Guardian, that looks at the movies most loved by the public and most rubbished by the critics and vice versa. Some surprises here.
Here is one example of a film that got good critical references but did not score quite so well with the public. I'll be giving it a miss. Even if the Double Feature folk may like it.
