Preposterously entertaining, this is an out-of-balance mixture of the macabre, odd humor and pedestrian melodrama, performed with gusto, directed and designed with aplomb. It's a peculiar film that genuinely benefits from its shortcomings (the wife who mostly screams and faints, the TWO mute servants, the useless husband who gets knocked down repeatedly, etc). Quite wonderful.
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Love Lies Bleeding 2024
All the elements are there, except a plot. Dug the bold exuberance of the ending.
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The Green Knight 2021
Seriously, this looks like the first genuinely magic(k)al, adult, intelligent, exuberant, myth-filled and intensely visualized 'fantasy' film since John Boorman's Excalibur (which itself was the first one since Bergman's Seventh Seal).
The trailer showcases David Lynch's Dune level of bold visual design, rooted in antiquity but extrapolated through visionary imagination. If there's one film I want to see now, it's this one. Come on summer, pox on covid, wear a mask, and let's goddamn roll.
EDIT: Saw it, see above. Not quite Excalibur or Seventh Seal, but the next best thing.
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The White Dawn 1974
As a longtime fan of wilderness films in general, Jack London, Philip Kaufman and Warren Oates in particular, it's all kinds of crazy that I had not even heard of this film, let alone seen it.
A group of whalers led by Warren Oates harpoon a whale in the 1890s near Baffin Island, crash the boat and get left behind to fend by themselves in the frozen wilderness before they come across a tribe of Inuits. What follows is a…
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