dir. Juan Antonio Bardem
Spain, 1955
Remarkable film noir (and anti-Franco parable) by our Bardem's grandfather.
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
London
dir. Patrick Keiller
UK, 1994
So utterly transfixed I forgot I had the flu. Very beautiful and very sad, like an aesthetic treatment of my childhood and my relationship with my dad.
UK, 1994
So utterly transfixed I forgot I had the flu. Very beautiful and very sad, like an aesthetic treatment of my childhood and my relationship with my dad.
Rewatch: The Shadow of the Vampire
dir. E. Elias Merhige,
USA, 2000
The uncanny likeness of Eddie Izzard to the actor that played Hutter in the original, and the complete miscasting and unlikeliness of the actor that played Ellen in the original to Catherine McCormack, who played Greta Schroeder playing Ellen in this.
USA, 2000
The uncanny likeness of Eddie Izzard to the actor that played Hutter in the original, and the complete miscasting and unlikeliness of the actor that played Ellen in the original to Catherine McCormack, who played Greta Schroeder playing Ellen in this.
Nosferatu
dir. F.W. Murnau
Germany, 1922
Still scary, yet unavoidably - and unconsciously - funny. The strange modernity of the heroine, she looked like she should be alive now, she didn't fit into the film; unlike the actor that played Hutter, who was so much of his time.
Germany, 1922
Still scary, yet unavoidably - and unconsciously - funny. The strange modernity of the heroine, she looked like she should be alive now, she didn't fit into the film; unlike the actor that played Hutter, who was so much of his time.
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Punishment Park
dir. Peter Watkins
USA, 1971
Fantastic pseudo-documentary that has very unsettlingly eerily scarily similar arguments made for brutal punishments of dissidents that today's America of the Patriot Act and Guantanamo Bay seems to indulge in...
USA, 1971
Fantastic pseudo-documentary that has very unsettlingly eerily scarily similar arguments made for brutal punishments of dissidents that today's America of the Patriot Act and Guantanamo Bay seems to indulge in...
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