Rob Christopher's Blog, page 126
July 15, 2019
3 things about Chang-dong Lee’s BURNING
Burning [2018]
1. He brings up the concept of metaphor.
2. Sunset dance.
3. He caresses Faulkner’s face on the book cover.
July 12, 2019
3 things about Luchino Visconti’s DEATH IN VENICE
Death in Venice [1971]
1. Altmanesque style throughout: gliding camera moves combined with zooms. Unexpected!
2. Meticulously, the barber paints Gustav’s hair black.
3. A thorough history of the spread of cholera from Asia.
July 11, 2019
3 things about Todd Solondz’s DARK HORSE
Dark Horse [2011]
1. Walken’s withering stare.
2. “Psychiatrists are idiots! The whole profession is a joke! I know my problems better than anyone, and there’s no solution.”
3. A soggy receipt.
July 10, 2019
3 things about Michael Haneke’s HAPPY END
Happy End [2017]
1. “I just put the same tablets in his food my mom takes for her depression. Let’s see what happens.”
2. A proposition for his barber.
3. They enter the hospital room, briefly look at her, then leave again. The bed is obscured by a curtain.
July 9, 2019
3 things about James Mangold’s LOGAN
Logan [2017]
1. He admonishes the nurses not to view them as children.
2. Going to the bathroom.
3. A grass shroud.
July 1, 2019
3 things about Mick Jackson’s THREADS
Threads [1984]
1. All the fingers are on fire.
2. The sound of swarms of flies coming from the cellar.
3. Britain’s population returning to medieval levels.
Genuinely terrifying.
June 29, 2019
3 things about Todd Douglas Miller’s APOLLO 11
Apollo 11 [2019]
1. The utter blackness of space. And then, slowly, a glowing white curve enters the frame.
2. “It’s like one of those revolving restaurants.”
3. Modified trailer as quarantine quarters.
Wow.
June 17, 2019
3 things about Joseph H. Lewis’s MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS
My Name Is Julia Ross [1945]
1. “She’s perfect.”
“There’s even a small resemblance.”
2. She keeps a locked drawer full of her son’s knives.
3. Unhelpful vicar.
June 15, 2019
3 things about François Ozon’s FRANTZ
Frantz [2016]
1. Black & white. They enter the cave, pass through, and on the other side the world is in color.
2. She studies the painting. “It makes me want to live.” Manet’s “Le Suicide.”
3. Without reading it, she tosses the letter into the fire.
June 14, 2019
3 things about Alex Thompson & Kelly O’Sullivan’s SAINT FRANCES
Saint Frances [2019]
1. Roberto Bolaño t-shirt.
2. “I love you, Dad.”
They hug.
“Change the oil in your car.”
3. A Northwestern graduate, she’s the author of Resting Rich Face.
