Films like Up, Down and Sideways.
Up, Down and Sideways (1992) reads as Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / athens, grounded 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 gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the grounded, familiar shape — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a heightened unreality.
Keeps the gentle temperature and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
These are Up, Down and Sideways’s neighbours — where are yours?
Pick the mood of the night and we pull a film that fits it, on the same twelve axes. Then everyone on the couch gets something to watch for.
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