Who would have thought to put to screen a Samuel Beckett and Buster Keaton collaboration? Feels more like an experiment/exercise than anything else, and still so fascinating. At least for those into film studies, I would fancy to say. No dialogue. Hardly any sound. If it weren’t for the pork pie hat, Keaton wouldn’t be recognizable in this otherwise. Yet that’s the whole point, right? His character hiding from the camera’s/public’s eye. Shutting out cats and dogs. Covering up birds…
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Insignificance 1985
Quite the examination of theories and metaphysical concepts. What could have easily just been a filmed stage show becomes something more with flashes of flashbacks, flash forwards, and even moments of one’s imagination that is neither. I will always be a sucker for anything placing famous figures together that never occurred in real life. Not like this any way, if they did. Having The Actress demonstrate their explanation of the Theory of Relativity to The Professor is simply wonderful. The…
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Romeo + Juliet 1996
Been a minute since I’ve seen this adaptation. And what an adaptation. Not for purists. Really unique though. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes are perfect as Romeo and Juliet. Their close-ups alone. Gazes. Cries. You name it. All that said, Harold Perrineau’s Mercutio is the real scene-stealer for me. So, so stellar as my favorite character from this tragic play. With my favorite line from it no less: "A plague on both your houses!" That scene was marvelously shot, and…
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The Straight Story 1999
What a beautifully meditative film from David Lynch based on/inspired by a true story. Richard Farnsworth is the perfect lead actor for this tale, and Sissy Spacek does a fantastic, understated job that with another actor and director team would have been too much. Too overacted. Like everything in here, things just are. Things are so natural and organic. So zen-like. There’s beauty in the straightforwardness of this all. Very philosophical too. The stories we carry. The stories others have…
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