I will preface this by saying, I’m a die hard fan of Wes Anderson.
I watched a video essay a while ago about David Lean’s gradual descent into an obsession with “spectacle over character.” In other words, Lean became so focused on the grand scale and visual scope of his films, that other aspects, such as character development, plot, etc. became unbalanced. The video essay compared this with Tenet, where Nolan, like Lean, got carried away with the film’s grandiose, undermining…

I remember my dad dropping me off at school on his way to work super early. My home WiFi sucked, and so I would wander around the administration building before sunrise, downloading a bunch of films on my phone to watch for the next few days, using school’s ultra-high speed internet.
On one of those mornings, I downloaded the non-restored version of Przypadek, available at that time. This was my introduction to Kieślowski’s work, which I later grew to love.…