Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Exceptionally well-dressed Western.
I suspect Sturges made movies in order to put good clothes on Robert Ryan. See also: Bad Day at Black Rock.
Very interesting how Oshima here makes a near perfect ghost film, adopting and adapting a whole catalogue of the formal techniques of the genre, especially in its Japanese iterations. However, all of his phantoms are of living persons. A dead man could appear, but does not – that would imply some kind of karmic vengeance, or conscience on the protagonist's part, and neither exist here.
Much less convinced about its ties to the pinku genre. Can anyone point to concrete…
Amélie for millennials, though I'm sure Jeunet's bonbon, swarming with wasps and green and red mold, has aged better than this will. Some of the most cynical product I've seen in years. It's like the NYT Op-Ed page mated with an in-flight entertainment system. Irredeemable, witless, ugly trash (yes, even taking into account some pretty sharp performances).
Not a single cut, not a single framing of substance or pleasure for nearly three hours. Just image after image, nothing between them. What does it mean when this no longer matters in the supposedly rarefied realm of arthouse cinema? And what else can we expect from an absolute, unalloyed program of coverage shooting – except sharper editing, less racism, less transmisogyny, some narrative invention or sensuality, some care or attention anywhere except on planing down all surfaces, all humanity,…