I lie broken on the floor of my apartment again listening to the waves crash from the white noise machine. Like layers of televisual media built up to repress feelings for Owen, the waves lull me into a deep sleep that has become cyclical thinking. I wore clothing in public that made me giddy but now left me tired at home. Broken, again, from the images, again.
The music scene hit a lot harder, the over reliance (consumption) of media…
A meditative film on the future and past of humanity. Swinton’s narration adds the only bit of humanity of this film, though, as the cinematography concerns solely structures (mainly from the Republic of Yugoslavia) and vistas lacking life. Reminiscent of the last nine shots of End of Summer, Jóhann’s only full-length is bent on exploring our surroundings as alien. If we leave and die, we leave behind a beautiful world in black and white. The score is perhaps my favorite…
When it set in that the film was a long chase scene capped with one of the boldest final ten minutes I’ve seen in a hot minute, I knew this was gonna be an incredible ride. Incredible ending to a tale of someone who knew he was gonna be back and had a point to make
Left my apartment and my loud, needy black cat to go see a movie about a loud, needy black cat. A great Monday matinee breaking up sessions of grading and meowing for attention
The pre-show at Alamo Drafthouse always gets me thinking every time I visit the establishment. Who is in charge? What is the process? From what collections are the clips sourced? Nearly wordless, it situated me into the theater space awaiting 85 minutes animation without words (read: the…
While I had a lot of fun with this film in the middle, the discussions of class and the aging of the comedy of the 1940s really ground me down throughout the screening. The script feels like it’s missing stuff while also being way too long and repetitive; the screenwriter wishes he wrote Challengers and Potion Seller.
Bazin’s point on “plastics” in his essay on realism really feels applicable here because of how fake and plastic everything feels. It’s so…
