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Memento 2000
Lenny's persistent quest to find the man that raped and murdered his wife, itself a contortion of the truth, is really a quest to retain an identity outside of mere mental infirmity. The movie lacks the tightness of any of Nolan’s later work; the backward narrative is easy enough to follow but there are too many loose-ends, moments that feel like filler. Perhaps, though, the Dodd and Natalie storylines are not simply red-herrings, bad actors trying to convince Lenny to…
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Le Bonheur 1965
The best use of color that I’ve ever seen… How vivid is the Eastman color!
From an essay on the film and Maxwell Perkins’ theory:
Varda is not so much a contradiction of Perkins’ theory as a tacit rebuttal: the director does not need to disappear if part of her art is exposing the gap between the world and her own perspective. Le Bonheur is an excellent film in many of the ways Perkins’ claims excellent films are to be:…
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2001: A Space Odyssey 1968
What is there to say. Easily the most visually captivating movie that I have ever seen. What this says ontologically, though, is much harder to puzzle out.
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