"but why is fantasia dying?"
"people have begun to lose their hopes and forget their dreams, so 'the nothing' grows stronger."
"what is 'the nothing'?"
"it's the emptiness that's left. It is like a despair, destroying this world. and I have been trying to help it."
"but why?"
"because people who have no hopes are easy to control. and whoever has the control has the power."
...
"so if I have to die anyway, I'd rather die fighting!"
(and then…
bushes of furry skin and satanic claws? it seems puberty in the 17th century british rural countryside needed special forms of symbolism to express itself. right, satan is loose and coming for the youngsters to worship him. basically spreading like a wild fire amongst them and leading to a kind of group infection of bewildered sexual arousal clashing with a heavily pietistic and patriachal society. the movie clearly reflects the sexual revolution of the 1960s and displays both a materialisation…
"no more smoke. I beg you!"
the 4k transfer is an absolute stunner. it truly slays with its brilliant scan of the gorgeously fantastical cinematography of the original film material. everything in this is just so moody and athmospherically in perfect harmony. nothing disrupts the otherworldly quality of the immersive experience. there are tons of practical effects implemented in the set design. with all this smoke and fog and dirt and a cast of great looking character heads the world…
"virgil, you take care."
yeah, from a racial perspective there were worse small town police chiefs in Mississippi in the 1960s than Chief Gillespie. and right, probably are to this day.
in Norman Jewisons In the heat of the night we witness an uncommon encounter of two men of law enforcement. what makes the connection so unique is that the typical intersection of race and class is turned upside down. the mentioned southern small town police chief bumps into an…
"Mr. Lee, are you ready?"
definitely! this is how Elon would like to kick ass in path of exile. it's the real shit. watching Bruce Lee slap his way through a bondian setting to revenge his family is a treat. amazing how physically gifted he was besides having this magnetic presence and an aura that poured out of him in heavy-hitting doses.
sure, the hollywood take on the genre and the Dr. No rip-off story with a supervillain holding a…
"are you bad, Cal? I don't know what's good and what's bad."
despite leaving out my favorite parts of the novel this feels very well Steinbeckian to me with its delving into the moral complexity of right vs wrong and bringing ambiguity into the clear separation of good and evil.
and it even has a good dose of Cathy in it, one of my all time favorite characters. it's a really satisfying depiction of her personality by Jo van Fleet.…
"james, I love you."
in its directness the most disturbing and saddest David Lynch movie to me. it's so stripped from the comfort of the tv show.
in this prequel to the events of twin peaks we witness the horrific imprint that childhood sexual abuse has on the psyche. Laura Palmer is trapped in an endless loop of unbearable anxiety and escapist coping in all kinds of self harming ways. substance abuse, overly sexualized, promiscuous behavior and by far the…
"it's strange to be calling myself. maybe it's not me."
the perfect representation of a dream within a nightmarish reality of her own. that part really breaks me.
sad to hear the news today. rest in peace David Lynch. infinitely admire his work, glad he left us so much behind.
rewatched the 4k restoration by Studiocanal supervised by David Lynch himself 5/5
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"oh, the things I have to do!"
it's hard to be a saint in the city. much more so in the slums of post war Rome. Pier Paolo Pasolini's Accattone is a grim ballad of a pimp and his class struggles trying to survive in this deeply deprived place. most overtly of course on a very basic level trying to stay afloat, leading a hand-to-mouth existence. but as we follow Franco Citti's character we understand that he is not…
a very british cup of tea. not fully mine though. too much romcom in this zomcom for my taste. despite the very clever writing and being brilliantly dark and funny at times it's at heart oddly conventional. this is supposed to bother me emotionally? team zombie here, bored to death.
watched the 4k scan by Universal 4/5
ridiculously overjoyous, vain Technicolor Robin Hood putting a stupid smile in my face from start to finish. it's love at first feast.
watched the german blu ray by Pidax Film Media 4,5/5
grim and brutal spaghetti western beautifully shot in bleak snowy landscape with a bunch of outstanding anti-heroes. yeah, cut-throats does them justice I suppose. and no, that's right, no heroes here. great soundtrack to round it all off.
really can't go wrong with this one. Tarantino approved I'm reading, slightly condensed numbers wise as influence for The Hateful Eight.
watched the limited german blu ray by mediacs, FSK 18, "Todesmarsch der Bestien", fitting, yeah 4/5