Wednesday 28 May 2008
Saturday 24 May 2008
Smiles of a Summer Night
My second Bergman film. It was wonderful! Really hilarious, wonderfully performed, and a great underlying theme of young loves and endless summers.
Tuesday 20 May 2008
Tuesday 13 May 2008
Crimes and Misdemeanors
Rediscovering Woody at the moment. I may have seen this before, but can't remember.
Thinking of it now, it's almost a predecessor to Match Point (which I seem to be utterly alone in the human race in actually liking), full of tragedic moral and religious dilemmas, a murderer getting away with, yep, murder. Actually, I guess it's part of a strand that runs through the whole of Woody's work. The Greek chorus in Mighty Aphrodite, the religious angst of Mickey in Hannah and Her Sisters, marriage break-ups and infidelity in pretty much every one of his films, the stories about 'castrating Zionists' in Manhattan. I never tire of it, his perfectly fine-tuned balance between that deep interrogation of the meaning of life and the hilarious consequences of our pathetic attempts to understand it all. No-one captures it quiet as well, I don't think. As Woody's Mickey says in Hannah and Her Sisters, "All these great minds who've written all these books, and none of them have any more answers than I do. I've read Socrates, he used to knock off little Greek boys, what's he got to tell me?"
Thinking of it now, it's almost a predecessor to Match Point (which I seem to be utterly alone in the human race in actually liking), full of tragedic moral and religious dilemmas, a murderer getting away with, yep, murder. Actually, I guess it's part of a strand that runs through the whole of Woody's work. The Greek chorus in Mighty Aphrodite, the religious angst of Mickey in Hannah and Her Sisters, marriage break-ups and infidelity in pretty much every one of his films, the stories about 'castrating Zionists' in Manhattan. I never tire of it, his perfectly fine-tuned balance between that deep interrogation of the meaning of life and the hilarious consequences of our pathetic attempts to understand it all. No-one captures it quiet as well, I don't think. As Woody's Mickey says in Hannah and Her Sisters, "All these great minds who've written all these books, and none of them have any more answers than I do. I've read Socrates, he used to knock off little Greek boys, what's he got to tell me?"
Monday 12 May 2008
Tuesday 6 May 2008
Rewatch: Festen
Or as the American DVD I have of it is called The Celebration.
The first Dogme 95 film, it's still just as devastating as it was when I saw it nearly ten years ago. For a film set in such palatial surroundings, it is so immediate and visceral.
The first Dogme 95 film, it's still just as devastating as it was when I saw it nearly ten years ago. For a film set in such palatial surroundings, it is so immediate and visceral.
Dekalog: The Ten Commandments Part 4
Almost a short play, mainly a two header between a young actress and a man in his 40s/50s who she's grown up thinking was her father.
Saturday 3 May 2008
Friday 2 May 2008
Rewatch: The Double Life of Veronique
I saw this a while ago, and didn't click with it. I didn't like it nearly as much as the rest of Kieslowski's work that I'd seen. I thought I'd watch it again as my love and admiration for Kieslowski's work has only grown. I think I could say I love this now.
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