Funerals & Snakes

Funerals & Snakes

Something to watch tonight: Tuesday 11 March

Pulp: a Film about Life, Death & Supermarkets (Habicht, 2014)

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Dan Slevin
Mar 11, 2025
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Still from the Florian Habicht documentary, Pulp: a Film About Life, Death & Supermarkets.

Firstly a quick reflection on yesterday’s ‘new releases’ newsletter. I realised after I’d clicked ‘send’ that the word I was wanting to use to describe Bong Joon Ho’s directing was “escalating” – that feeling that everything that happens increases the stakes, the risk, the tension. It’s not a straight line, even in an upward direction, it’s a curve that…

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