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8 ½ Women 1999
I did not Get this one, I think. But perhaps too much of the Fellini commentary went above my head. Or perhaps it was simply too personal a transmission from Greenaway for me. I think this deserves a rewatch and re-evaluation from me in the future, but not right now.
A Greenaway I don't love is still better than most things, however.
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The Pillow Book 1995
greenaway starting to slide into his full blown moving pictures scrapbook stage here. really funny seeing the reviews from the non-greenaway fans just here for the mcgregor dong and weren't prepared for a complete abandonment of aspect ratio and natural shot composition.
greenaway isn't so much ahead of his time as he is outside of it - broadcasting from a dimension where film replaced traditional visual arts. where the frame is a painting, but so much more. a natural progression…
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Paris, Texas 1984
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
spent this entire film trying desperately to connect to it and couldn't quite do it. it's well-crafted, beautifully achingly shot, the performances are stellar. but it lost me after travis took his son and ran. I know that films don't have to advocate anything, and characters don't have to make good choices, and nobody in fiction owes the audience a damn thing, but I found it so hard to continue caring for travis, or be interested in him at all,…
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Halloween 1978
spending 70k of a 300k shoestring budget on a panaglide camera was a choice so inspired and so risky that it feels divine and inexplicable. and it sells the entire film. the opening shot through the meyers house? the camera spending most of the film looming and stalking and always just There? perfect. 10/10. feels like fall in the same way that texas chain saw feels like summer and black christmas feels like winter.
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