Befuddling, and yet also entrancing and memorable in a way that continued to eat at me hours after the screening. Probably the Martel film which feels most familiar with David Lynch, both in its oneiric qualities and its attempt to portray the shifting similarities between the comically absurd and the absurdly terrifying (there's also probably no better filmmakers working today when it comes to their use of sound). But while the works of Lynch contain much in the way of…
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You Were Never Really Here 2017
The protagonist in every Lynne Ramsay film is a ghost, a person who has been affected and broken by past trauma in a way that renders them at a distant remove from everything happening around them. This is no different in You Were Never Really Here, a story about a hired gun named Joe who is assigned a task of rescuing a girl from a sex trafficking ring. There's a worry that this may feel like overly worn and familiar…
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The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928
Seeing this on the big screen with the booming score done by Adrian Utley and Will Gregory made for an almost religious experience. Probably the most exemplary and effective use of close-ups I've ever seen in a film, capturing emotion and reaction and ratcheting up the claustrophobia in the most intense way possible. Maria Falconetti's performance is truly one for the ages. She plays Joan with such an anguish and fragility that wound up leaving me reeling by the end of it all. Simply put one of the greatest films I've ever seen.