Weekly Substack of Gen X cultural review. No dunking. No hot takes. No false nostalgia.
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We’ve been rewatching ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, a film at least partly inspired by a desire to repair Anglo-American relations. Not the last time that was needed.
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The Metropolitan finally got around to watching (the excellent) ‘One Battle After Another’ which, in its depiction of hidden America, weirdly reminded us of ‘Repo Man’
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This week is Mixtape week in The Metropolitan, which means it’s also time for our regular playlist of our favorite ten tracks from last month’s listening.
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The whimsicality of ‘A Matter of Life and Death’ has a point but it can be off-putting for a certain kind of viewer. Not The Metropolitan, though.
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It’s Mixtape week in The Metropolitan, in which we round up what we’ve been reading, watching and listening recently, including, this month, the ‘Absolute Wonder Woman’ comics.
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It’s hardly surprising that the Merchant Ivory depiction of the pre-First World War, long summer of the Edwardian middle classes would have been so appealing to a certain kind of audience in the ‘80s.
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Having been rewatching Merchant Ivory adaptations of E. M. Forster novels, it seems almost unfair that David Lean bagged ‘A Passage to India’ before they could get to it.
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We’ve been rewatching ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, and the engagement with the imaginative immediately put us in mind of the animated films of Studio Ghibli.
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This week The Metropolitan has been rewatching Powell and Pressburger’s ‘A Matter of Life and Death’, which has led to an astonishing amount of age-related lachrymosity.
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The Metropolitan Editors have been rewatching ER recently, which made for a really interesting comparison to Akira Kurosawa’s medical drama ‘Red Beard’.
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