Like lying down in a dirty pool waiting for an existential crisis to go away— meditative but not quite transcendental.
I love slow paced meditations on existence, so this film was preaching to the choir. And while it’s extremely well rendered and crafted with powerful imagery recalling both slow cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tsai Ming-liang and (strangely enough) Classic films like It’s a Wonderful Life, this felt a little slight.
Yes, it’s 3 hours long and it does have…
Mulholland Dr is probably my favorite movie, but even I would hold myself back on watching it on a first date (especially if that date was with a woman I was donating sperm to…).
Oppenheim is likely the most exciting documentary maker currently working. Largely he does the same with Ren Faire as he does here, find an inlet of society populated with quirky characters. But what makes him special is how creates such a lived in atmosphere with the…
Watching this again after years and years convincing myself that this was in fact Tarantino’s crowning achievement was a strange experience. The first half of the film was all fine and good. It was all mostly how I remembered it. Occasional moments played out slightly differently though. Just tiny things here and there that were slightly skewed, probably due to recollecting the social memory of this film rather than the actual film itself.
Aside from this, the only thing I…
I don’t remember the last time I walked out of the theater so shook after NOT seeing something…
Much like Glazer’s last films, he works in the negative. He uses the ambient spaces between to illustrate and illuminate the indelible. In Birth, it’s love/truth. In Under the Skin, it’s human nature. Here he takes it to the limit and depicts the unrelenting horror of banal evil.
I couldn’t help but think of Tender is the Flesh… A book I just…
Jordan Barbosa reviewed and rated Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell on Sunday Dec 15, 2024
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