I’m so tired of aspect ratios being treated as novelty. The whole corresponding a certain time period to different ratio thing was cute the first few times but now it’s become such an empty meaningless gesture. You know if you want to film in 1.33:1 you can just do it, right? Why even switch back to 1.85:1 for all of five minutes as if it’s some noble effort to restrain yourself from getting carried away. At this point, if you’re…
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Romeo + Juliet 1996
I’ve rarely seen such beautiful cinematic language on display as it is in this wild maximalist approach to Shakespeare. Regardless of what he’s done since, Baz deserves a ton of credit for having such a unique vision for this and going all in with every aspect. A movie that creates it’s own realm of existence so distant from anything else in it’s genre and yet, so of it’s time. I wouldn’t sacrifice anything about the dialogue but sure, if I completely understood everything they were saying I’d probably love it even more. That ending is everything.
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