2010 Directed by Panos Cosmatos
Deep within the mysterious Arboria Institute, a disturbed and beautiful girl is held captive by a doctor in search of inner peace. Her mind controlled by a sinister technology. Silently, she waits for her next session with deranged therapist Dr. Barry Nyle. If she hopes to escape, she must journey through the darkest reaches of The Institute, but Nyle wonʼt easily part with his most gifted and dangerous creation.
Túl a Fekete Szivárványon, ビヨンド・ザ・ブラック・レインボー, 비욘드 더 블랙 레인보우, Za czarną tęczą, По ту сторону черной радуги, Kara Gökkuşağının Ötesi, 迷幻黑彩虹
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this isnt even a horror movie its just a documentary about what would happen if i forgot to take my antidepressants for two days
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The Anti-Enlightenment. The Inverted Inverted Pyramid. The Cosmic Serpent Turned Inside-Out, Its Skin Shed Within, Lost To An Interior Void. Liberation Usurped By The Command/Control Systems Which It Enabled And Allowed For. Kosmische Dusts, Inhalants, Moldened. The Pupil Dilated To Absorb The Whole Of The Iris. The Dream Of Self-Containment, An Inward Spiral Seeping Finally Into An Abyss Without End, Which Leads To What? Which Leads To Here.
The Psychedelic Dystopias Of the 1970's, Flattened And Suborned Into Reaganite Slasherisms. A Narrowing And A Confinement, Let Loose Into A Where.
Last week I showed my roommate my favorite movie of all time (Mr. Fox), this week he showed me his...basically the same movie (sarcasm).
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I don’t really know where to begin and I’m not going to bother getting analytical so I’ll just state my general reactions and thoughts. This movie made me go “please for the love of god speed the hell up” while simultaneously making me go “alright wait stop..wait...GO BACK NO...WHAt-WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING”.
Regardless of how well it told a story, this thing was an experience that I felt was very purposeful. I think it’s impossible to walk away from this and go “meh”.
There are certain things in life, no matter how brutal, that…
That B+W tarpit-baptism-murder sequence, or whatever the fuck I was looking at about fifty minutes into this film, is without a doubt one of the best scenes of 2010.
A hypnotic journey with an astounding visual aesthetic, Beyond the Black Rainbow takes everything that feels familiar about from other synth drenched genre offerings and goes beyond that, unleashing pure phantasmagoric energy and creating for some (I.E. myself) an entrancing experience of immeasurable proportion. That’s just what Beyond the Black Rainbow is, an experience.
I first saw this about five years ago and three films released during that specific time period all stood out to me, Beyond the Black Rainbow, Amer, and The Strange Color of your Bodies Tears. While I like some things about the visually beautiful, hyper-stylized later two , the derivations in them had zero emotional effect on me and the over-saturation of gialli (my favorite genre) style took me out of…
It seems like there's a whole generation of filmmakers inspired by David Cronenberg who have decided if he's not making films like this anymore, they'll make them for him. This one is even set in 1983 (the year of Videodrome), for greater authenticity. The trouble is, Cronenberg didn't make 110 minute exercises in tone; even at his most abstract, there's a sense of narrative purpose and characters you can invest in. It's not that I'm against opaqueness in films, cinematic fever dreams whose primary appeal is audiovisual, but if you're going down that route, they need to be texturally interesting and not so one note. Here, the predominant tone is drone, and most of the first hour of the film…
If Argento, Lynch, and Kubrick had a baby it would be called "Beyond the Black Rainbow". Imagine the last 15 minutes of 2001 stretched out to a 2 hour film and you pretty much get the vibe of this. It's also got a very John Carpenterish score that rocks. I don't know what kind of Kool-Aid Panos Cosmatos is drinking but if he's gonna make films like this let's hope he keeps it up.
Panos Cosmatos,
John Carpenter called. He wants his score back.
Alex North called. He wants his score back too.
The public library called. They want their boxed set of Stanley Kubrick dvds back.
Nicolas Winding Refn called. He said he really loved the long shots of characters walking down hallways.
Andrei Tarkovsky called. He said if it would mean sparing the world of Beyond The Black Rainbow, he would gladly go back in time and become a gold prospector instead of a filmmaker.
Dull but strangely mesmerizing, experimental but evoking some narrative, and layered in artificial but obvious genre conventions, Panos Cosmatos' "Beyond the Black Rainbow" is a science fiction nightmare that defies categorization. It also defies enjoyment, but it is such an interesting, evocative, and strange beast of a film that it engages at the same time it repels.
The story involves a young woman apparently imprisoned in a facility run by a doctor who speaks of inner peace. She works to escape. He harbors a horrific secret. People die.
The narrative, which is told obliquely, appears to be less consequential than the film's style and visuals. The film looks like a 1970s science fiction piece with its retro-future tech. and use…
