This is a film about nothing.
This is a film about everything.
Jonas Mekas’s magnum opus is one part home video, one part freewheeling travelogue, one part video diary, and one part essay on the magical banality of everyday existence.
It’s a flood of imagery that occasionally gets too manic for its own good. Some of the best sequences are when Jonas lets the images breathe and the messages speak for themselves purely through montage, as a few of the…
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he saw the world. As he passed through the doorway, he caused a reflection. Evil was born. Evil was born, and followed the boy.
Make no mistake, Inland Empire is Lynch’s truest “horror” film. This film gets under my skin more than most.
It’s like a mosaic that’s been shattered into a million pieces. As you are on your hands and knees scrambling to piece it back together,…
“There may be a strange quality to the air. Its particles of dust derive from un-modern constituents. Even human bodies seem to radiate a different kind of warmth when covered with the fabrics of another age.”
Simply sublime.
I can now add this film to my ever-growing list of reasons to never have children.
One out of two films from Andrei’s work which could hold the only title as pure “philosophical sci-fi”.
It’s a story about the deepest most subconscious desires of the soul, and the resistance to these desires coming into fruition when the opportunity is presented.
It’s about the conflicting forces that exist within our soul. Dark fighting light, and light fighting dark, until the two merge into union.
Stalker is a haunting portrait of men traversing to the darkest places both physically and mentally in search of what was in front of them the entire time.
