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Hour of the Wolf 1968
Some thoughts:
• Perhaps the phantoms appearing to Johan represent the fragmented parts of an artist: his passion, traumas, patronage (or economic necessity of selling his art); indeed, Johan says at one point, “The mirror has been shattered. But what do the shards reflect?” Simply, a fragmented reflection of himself.
• The castle belongs to bourgeois patrons who fund Johan’s art (by letting him live on the island); they’re also “man-eaters,” “cannibals”, and vampiric (especially the “bird man” and Transylvanian…
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Cries and Whispers 1972
Some muddled thoughts…
• Ingmar Bergman had an impactful encounter with a young girl’s dead body (which appeared to be breathing) at a mortuary in his youth, an encounter he tried multiple times to capture on film, but said this effort finally culminated in Cries and Whispers, in which a dead person is in limbo
• The film started with a vision Bergman had of women clad in white arranged in a red room: For Bergman, red was always the…
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe 2005
There’s no denying that The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe looks beautiful from start to finish. The beginning looks and feels quintessentially British, but once we step foot into Narnia, the film excels at artful world-building—the CGI characters are particularly exceptional and the production design is noticeably rich. The child actors are well-cast: They not only look like siblings, but also give good performances, as well. There are also some inspired shots; for example, in one scene in which…
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Last Year at Marienbad 1961
Defying easy conclusions and challenging you to understand it, Last Year at Marienbad probably doesn’t have any single meaning. Everything in the film is thankfully left ambiguous and obscured, baroque and mysterious like its subject matter, creating a surreal experience for the viewer. It’s a film I just let happen to me, and for that I was left completely moved.
What does it all mean to me? I’m still trying to figure that out. But my tentative answer is that…
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