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Blue Velvet 1986
Establishes the groundwork for David Lynch's post-Dune style and thematic interests. You can see elements of Blue Velvet in all of his movies made after it, and we would not have Twin Peaks without Blue Velvet's unflinching look at the darkness of good old-fashioned suburbia.
Blue Velvet is a beautifully shot movie and was a pleasure to watch at the cinema, where I had the least annoying crowd for a Lynch movie yet. I forgot how engrossing Isabella Rossellini and…
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Vertigo 1958
The last time I watched Vertigo was on a scratched DVD I rented from Blockbuster as a teenager, so I didn't get the full experience until I ventured to the movie theater to go see this yesterday.
Vertigo is Alfred Hitchcock's most visually pleasing film and has numerous memorable sequences and scenes, yet it didn't click with me at any point. The critical re-appraisal of this movie has gone up significantly over the years - it was #2 in the…
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Eureka 1983
Fourth Roeg, this was a bizarre miss that I am still trying to understand the point of.
A typical review of this movie praises the relatively short part of the movie where Jack McCann (Gene Hackman) is prospecting for gold in turn of the century Yukon, and admonishes the parts set in the Caribbean. Despite the beginning for sure being the most interesting part of the movie, I was surprised by how little of it landed. The visuals, no doubt,…
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Se7en 1995
Se7en is a gloomy, dark horror movie masquerading as a neo-noir police procedural, set an unnamed rainy city, during an unspecified period of time. The movie plays out like a gritty cop drama for most of its runtime before the tenor of the movie shifts in the last quarter, building to its unforgettable climax.
Se7en stands the test of time, not because of the pop culture reverberations of "what's in the box", but because it is crafted with such care…
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