![]() November of this year will mark the third anniversary of my first re-view for Ten Years Ago. But first we should dispense with the past. In the following re-view I’ll try to explain why. I think the film is better for it ten years later. Indeed, the biggest surprise this time around was realizing that I was going to have add ‘dark’ to what I had already decided was a film devoted almost entirely to comedy. That said, one of the things I noticed in my re-viewing of Intermission is that, despite its undeniably comic exterior and its endearing attempts at mining the lives of ordinary folk for moments of tenderness, spite, and humility, it offers its own version of the darkness that a film like Closed Circuit seems to wear brazenly. From what I can tell of the trailer, the overt gravity of Closed Circuit’s focus on terrorism and its clear play on cinematic spy culture and international intrigue is about as far as one could get from Intermission’s so-very-earnest take on quirky ensemble comedy. It seems a fortuitous coincidence that I come before you today to re-view John Crowley’s 2003 dark comedy Intermission, seeing as his newest feature, the political thriller Closed Circuit, is set for general release this week. It’s as political a record as it is personal.Erik Jaccard contemplates what happens during an Intermission, and sometimes also the film of the same name. There Will Be No Intermission is a work of art. ![]() It’s an exercise in survival and Amanda Palmer is an artist who is dedicated to doing what she’s on this earth to do. There Will Be No Intermission is an album that needs to be taken in, in full. Just like life, the spaces in the inbetween are just as full.Ĭongleton’s influence can also fully be heard throughout a personal favourite being the sword sounds in “Machete”. Tracks such as “You Know the Statistics” and “Life’s Such a Bitch Isn’t It” truly provide no intermission to the piece. Produced by John Congleton, the album’s 10 tracks are spliced with short instrumentals composed by longtime collaborator, Jherek Bischoff. There Will Be No Intermission is about the lost and for the living. There Will Be No Intermission openly dances with death (“The Thing About Things”, “Bigger on the Inside”), abortion (“Voicemail for Jill”), love (“Machete”, “Judy Blume”) and satirical truths (“A Mother’s Confession”). The lyrical content ebbs and flows from positive to negative to scared to a deep inhale of good energy. This is a record with the markings of the innermost thoughts many of us keep to ourselves. It’s a crucial, brutal, honest album on which Palmer faces off against all that’s going on in the world as well as all that dwells inside of her. In the UK, our leftist political parties are falling apart as the country is carelessly torn from the EU in the States, admitted sexual predator Donald f***ing Trump sits at the helm of the highest ship in the fleet. Combining songs written over the last six years for Patreon and new, this record reflects the times in which we live. ![]() Life provides no breaks to any of us.īy all means, There Will Be No Intermission is Palmer's chef d'œuvre. I thought, as Amanda Palmer sang, "I think it's funny that he asked me/ cos I don't feel like a fighter lately/ I am too unhappy", she's right. The irony of this is not lost on me: As I sat to translate my notes to sentences, “Bigger on the Inside” piano-plucking through my headphones, I was faced with unsolicited advances in a park. ![]()
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