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The Red Shoes 1948
TIP: do not watch 24 year old DVD release when accustomed to 2 year old 4K release!
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Orlando 1992
Androgyny as a symbol of mystical unity. Sally Potter’s Orlando is pretty incredible throughout. Tilda Swinton is (obviously) a performative powerhouse. Quentin Crisp as Queen Elizabeth is casting at its finest. The hedge maze scene is just perfect. Translating Virginia Woolf to screen is probably impossible. This comes close at points. I don’t think the ending quite captures the transcendent quality of Woolf’s original ending, with its modernist self-consciousness and metafictional awareness. Woolf presents herself as part of a great lineage…
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Perfect Blue 1997
I wanted to dip my toes into the deep waters of anime, but Perfect Blue knocked me unconscious and proceeded to hold me down until I drowned.
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Barry Lyndon 1975
I like films that don’t instruct their audience on how they should feel about their events or characters. Barry Lyndon is one such film. It observes life with stony detachment and we examine its breathtaking shots as we would a painting rather than a movie. In this film, a picture really is worth a thousand words.
Kubrick does not set out to create something heartwarming or upbeat, but not exactly tragic or depressing either. It is rather like life itself;…
