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Fanny and Alexander 1984
This is the only Ingmar Bergman film I've ever seen. It is Bergman's swan song, and is difficult to summarize. On one level, it's about a wealthy child who undergoes an abrupt change in parentage, but what it's really about could fill a book.
"My Dinner with Andre" consists almost completely of a long conversation over dinner. The movie works because it's a scintillating conversation. One can conclude from this that a movie doesn't need to have a plot so…
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Alien 1979
Alien resonates all the more as the wealth distribution of late-imperial America grows increasingly imbalanced, and her citizens lie prostrate before invincible, towering skyscrapers. This was my third time watching Alien, but only my first time picking up on the parallelism between the Weyland-Yutani Corporation and the alien it hopes to acquire. The crew is powerless against either of them.
The film is particularly effective at establishing a sense of existential dread. The humans are literally in the middle of…
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Ikiru 1952
Ikiru is a film about the third act arriving sooner than expected, in which the third act arrives sooner than expected. (Wow!) It is also a film about bureaucrats who squander their lives before towering piles of paperwork that dominate the office from floor to ceiling, leaving a meager aperture near the window for one ray of light to shine through. Finally, it’s a film about fighting stagnation and making the most of what little time you have remaining—always less…
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Taxi Driver 1976
One thing I’m learning as I watch these movies is that I’m drawn to movies about lonely misfits. The most likely reason that Rear Window resonates so deeply with me is that its protagonist is stuck inside, can’t appreciate the beauty in his presence, and is practically rooting for something beastly to happen.
In Taxi Driver, Travis Bickle’s situation is much worse. He bears the deep physical and mental scars from Vietnam, although one has to wonder if his issues…
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