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Suspiria 2018
I wrote a whole paragraph on my feelings towards this film, but it got wiped, as I started writing before I finished the film and didn’t want to hit save until I had finished it. Suffice it to say: contrived bullshit that doesn’t hold a candle to the original in nearly every way. What an unbearably boring, drab, uninspired remake of a wonderfully colorful, inventive, and unique film. Yorke’s score puts you to sleep when it’s not all together invisible…
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Pulse 2001
Not quite as taught and focused as Cure, but still plenty frightening. Ranks among other contemporary Japanese works such as Serial Experiments Lain and Metal Gear Solid 2 in presaging the influence and ubiquity of the internet age and social media isolation as a sort of zombie apocalypse. We’re all alone in life and alone in death until final oblivion. Some of the ghost sequences in this film will forever live rent free in my head. The slow walking and…
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Millennium Mambo 2001
Hou is a master of tone and time, but, damn, those hypnogogic, beatific, musical slow-motion interstitial sequences of pure bliss and melancholy—as if remembering a long forgotten dream from a past life on a foreign, alien world. Messy, blurry, out of focus; reaching and grasping—time spent groping around in darkness and shadow against effervescent, artificial neon light—as if walking both simultaneously backwards and forwards through life. Searching, searching, searching; returning, returning, returning. Once more. One more time. The last time.…
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