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Blue Velvet 1986
How does this movie get better every time I watch it? Every scene feels more intense and the symbolism sings more with each additional viewing. Truly a masterclass in filmmaking and Lynch’s best work.
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One from the Heart 1982
Similar problems as Heaven’s Gate, but the film’s smaller ambitions, tighter running time, and Coppola’s virtuosity make the flaws less grating and the successes more sublime. The narrative completely falls short at almost every turn, but the artificiality of the production lets me forgive the crappy writing as perhaps deliberate. Even so, the narrative’s chief fault is that Hank and Franny don’t seem to really love each other that much, so we don’t particularly care if they get back together. That…
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The Deer Hunter 1978
Didn’t anticipate liking this movie as much as I did upon rewatching it. Deeply self-indulgent but in places where it improved the movie, even if it occasionally drags. Seeing Michael, Nick, and Stevie all together at home for so long made the ending gut wrenching. I felt like I had such an intimate awareness of who these people were and what their lives were like before they went to Vietnam and were, for the most part, destroyed. When I first…
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1972
I forgot how much this movie forgoes a standard kind of cinematic beauty. The blocking is frequently haphazard, the shots are all captured on a handheld, and vegetation, rocks, and mist block sections of every frame, but what it lacks in the polish of its bigger budget cousin Apocalypse Now, it makes up for in a kind of documentary realism and extravagance of themes, narrative, and characters.
I’ve said before that this is the shortest epic movie I’ve ever seen,…
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