Films like Polyester.
Polyester (1981) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / cult, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a gentle temperature.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the cold, bleak undertow; trades toward a unmistakable directorial hand.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
These are Polyester’s neighbours — where are yours?
Rate five posters and the same twelve axes read you — then tonight’s pick comes from your own centre of taste.
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