Life, with a Leak
Before his brilliant 2016 Rat Film, Theo Anthony made a few preceding pictures, of which Chop My Money [2015] counts as the first. It's the portrait of a group of Congolese street-kids, lives born into near-continual slow-motion, all haze of weed and cheap hooch. They are 'gangsters.' They go to military-school from 7:30am to 1pm every day to study math and English. Their medicine man has unwittingly lent an aspirational nickname to the toughest in the crew: "the Bill Gates Congo Man." The BGCM opens the film with the voice-over:
"This world is not the world. This life is not the life."
You can view Anthony's film at his website here. •
Writings at Cinemasparagus about the films of Theo Anthony:
Chop My Money [2015]
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This year I've been keeping a list of deaths of note. I'd wished to have fully obituarized each in a few lines, but this will have to do for the current installment:
Jose Luis Vasquez (The Soft Moon)
Mary Weiss
Sandra Milo
Damo Suzuki
Eleanor Coppola
Dickey Betts
Laurent Cantet
Robert Towne
Donald Sutherland
Willie Mays
Anouk Aimée
Martin Mull
Shelley Duvall
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
and (I'd planned to go long on this final passing in a separate entry, but the world seemed to wholly have my back on this one) —
The Smartest Guy in Any Room: Steve Albini •
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