Films like High Anxiety.
High Anxiety (1977) reads as Warm, kinetic, measured comedy, 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 heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a grounded, familiar shape.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a deep human warmth.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a airy, open telling.
Keeps the unmistakable directorial hand; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a heightened unreality.
These are High Anxiety’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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