Films like The Twelve Chairs.
The Twelve Chairs (1971) reads as Cosy, breathless, measured comedy / satire, 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 — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
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 — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.
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 cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.
Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a clean studio craft.
Keeps the running vein of humour and the heightened unreality; trades toward a relentless forward drive.
These are The Twelve Chairs’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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