Need something uplifting right now? This might be it...
Loved Marty Supreme. What starts as a period sports drama centred on a self-mythologising chancer, evolves into an anxiety-inducing riff on hustle culture (and Chalamet's quest for greatness) touching on post-WWII class and race, soundtracked anachronistically by banging 1980s electronic music.
First day of Term 2, and back to teaching.
This morning, I had an intro session for "Researching Film Studies". This afternoon, I have the opening class for "Superheroes", covering hero monomyths, defining the superhero and superhero film genre, and other opening debates and discussions.