The most immediate comparison I could make to Stath Lets Flats is perhaps The Office, in that the main character possesses a downright painful social ineptitude.
He is extremely terrible at his job and it is 100% clear that he is only still employed because his father puts up with his crap, though even his Dad admits how difficult it is to keep giving him a pass for his antics.
Stath Lets Flats, created by and starring Jamie Demetriou, is a British sitcom focusing on Stath, a letting agent working for his father’s company. Seeing that Gaynord was involved in Stath Lets Flats, I decided to check it out-and spent several hours marathoning one of the better sitcoms I’ve seen in some time. Hawk Ripjaw: Stath Lets Flats wasn’t anywhere near my radar until I was reading up on Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin’s (of I Think You Should Leave legend) new HBO show Computer School, the pilot of which is directed by Andrew Gaynord. The wizards at NASA may design Apollo rocket ships and manipulate physics to send men to the Moon but Linklater accomplishes a similarly inspiring feat on a deceptively smaller scale: fully teleporting himself and his audience back in time by reincarnating the space age some 50+ years later with vividness and poignancy.Īpollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood is currently streaming on Netflix. His commitment to the trifling particulars and nonessential technicalities is what truly brings this fantastical, NASA-saturated childhood to life. Linklater uses both trivia and triviality to cut to the core of lost time: to recapture the microcosmic details of an elusive, bygone world. The cumulative result of all these indelible memories is remarkable. The film is a sprawling diary, writ large.
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We witness his father stealing construction plywood to build a Ping-Pong table and ranting about the difference between white trash and rednecks we witness his friends lifting arcade games at the bowling alley to score a free play we witness his elementary school teachers paddling students in detention or rolling out the TV for rocket launch days we witness one grandmother spouting paranoid conspiracies and another taking the family to see The Sound of Music and on and on. We acquaint ourselves with Stanley’s family, neighborhood, and hometown city (Houston) on a visceral level. The minutia of childhood is all there, fully recreated. The tokens of depersonalized/public pop culture (Jello-O molds, the Vietnam war, NASA, pinball machines, littering hysteria, The Twilight Zone) truly become inseparable from the personal. Linklater conflates the large-scale and small-scale stakes so seamlessly and wonderfully that the micro and macro feel as if they are cut from the same cloth. Sure, a ton of well-treaded ’60s regalia and memorabilia are rehashed, but everything is filtered through the authentic lens of genuine, first-person nostalgia. I absolutely loved every nuanced, information-rich second of this intimate, unfiltered movie. Apollo 10½ once again taps into this undeniable talent and motif, while adding an extra dose of autobiographic heft. He’s already proved his uncanny knack for reimagining small moments of youth with specificity and clarity (from Slacker to Dazed & Confused to Boyhood to the Before Sunset/Sunrise/Midnight trilogy). With every frame, Linklater’s attention to detail is meticulous and lucid. It feels more akin to a literary masterpiece-rendered cinematic through the masterful work of rotoscope animation. Paul Keelan: Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood is Linklater’s painstaking portrait of an artist as a young man. Film Recommendation - Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood This week, Paul recommends Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood, Hawk was inspired to check out Stath Lets Flats, and Tim is playing Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course. They might not always be new, but they will always be things we think are worth your time. Each week we gather to recommend things we’ve been enjoying lately.
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