“It seems people aren’t dying fast enough these days.”
In the analysis of anything lastingly great, we’d all love to know what repeatable formula might yield the same results. Hollywood strives for that formula time & again. Here was such an example; re-mined for more gold with a new version in 2002. It could never possibly have succeeded as well though. It could not repeat what this 1960 movie had. Foremost, there was everything truly original & inspirational in H.G. Wells’ 1895…
“Bad luck isn't brought by broken mirrors, but by broken minds.”
Dario Argento’s previous movie ‘Profondo rosso’ translates to ‘Deep Red’. Anyone who’s a fan or seen ‘Suspiria’ knows where I’m going with this already. Never have I seen a film so vibrantly concerned with its colour palette as this. And oh boy is Red the colour of choice. It’s in colour filters from the off at Munich Airport. Ladies dresses. Car brake lights. The walls & wallpaper of the Tanz…
“I’m 37. Anything under 20 seems like a babe in arms.”
Reading a bunch of other reviews will be illuminating. I get why this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" in 2005. I get why purely from historical context, this is almost unique to devote so much screentime to a racial subject matter. For all that, at 111 minutes I felt a lot of plot got in…
“What he doesn't know about vampirism wouldn't fill a flea's codpiece.”
Up yours Amazon Prime! When I started watching this about a year ago, I had to quit. The picture & sound quality were appalling. Thank you very much Amazon Prime! If I hadn’t quit, I’d have felt less inclined to buy the amazing Hammer Studios Blu Ray Box Set. If my reviewing Stars were for the love & content here it’d be 5 for 5 before anything else. Multiple versions. Documentaries.…
“Here today. Gone tomorrow.”
Let me give you the perfect example of why David Lynch is a loss to us all . And to why I came out from seeing this on the Big Screen a second time in just under two years, saying I get more out of it every time.
I intended to watch all the stuff with Frank’s gang, & write about the scene with Dean Stockwell. First new thing I never noticed before: as they approach, Frank…
I still have the most dreadful hangover from 40 years ago. And it’s called Dune.
Before my teens, before home video, before multiple TV channels, before multiplexes, before the Internet & streaming. Back then you took what you could get. You watched the same core few favourites over & over. So did your best mates. And in that small world, you came to know something like Dune almost inside out.
I agree with every comment on the spectacle, the vision, the scale…
