As someone with relatively little interest in opera, and expecting a minor entry in Zulawski's filmography, I was really blown away by this. Featuring some of the most stunning production design I've ever seen, with its towering, surreal grandeur punctuated by the confident admission of the film's artifice as a staged production (via a framing of an opera performance and near constant flagrant displaying of the film's lighting setups and crew). The cinematography is excellent at showing off this stunning…
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Mahler 1974
An extended showcase of Ken Russell’s mastery of capturing the inner lives of his biographical subjects, confidently intermixing an external portrait of a man so caught up in his own internal world and its anxieties, that it eats way at himself and everyone around him, with said internal life cast in some of the most impressively vivid psychosexual impressionist filmmaking of a career full of such incredible sequences.
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Walker 1987
The condescension, vacuousness, and brutality of American empire rendered with the absurd savagery of spirit it always should be recognized for, but almost never is in film. The logic of Walker's world buckles and breaks from the unending and unwavering hubris and callousness of the stain on history it depicts, time folding in on itself and shredding any security to be wrought by placing the continual cycle of paternalistic supremacist violence wrought by the United States in the temporal box…
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