An excellent adaptation of Wuthering Heights.
The volcanic, mountain landscape perfectly translates the remoteness and brutality of Brontë’s moors and the forbidden chamber is reminiscent of the red rooms of Victorian literature and creates this foreboding and erotic spacial dimension within the world of the film. Yoshishige Yoshida brings out the violence and domination in the story with Onimaru/Heathcliff being genuinely frightening after returning from the capital, now in position to dominate those around him. Yūko Tanaka delivered what may be…
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Wuthering Heights 1988
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Hiroshima Mon Amour 1959
“When I was part of the New Wave, we spent time discussing other people’s films. And I remember that when we saw Hiroshima mon amour by Alain Resnais, we were just stunned.
We thought we had discovered everything about cinema, we thought we knew it all, and suddenly we were confronted with something that had been done without us, without our knowledge, and that deeply moved us.” Jean-Luc Godard
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Days of Heaven 1978
I watched Days of Heaven on a whim tonight at Close-Up, a few days after watching the Zone of Interest. Inevitably the latter was on my mind particularity the parallels between Lebensraum and its American expression, Manifest Destiny.
Days of Heaven is resplendent with shots of the vast plains of the Texas panhandle, Bison, the railway and seasonal labourers, a microcosm of the melting pot of America at the turn of the last century. Absent from the film and the…
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