Category: Cinema
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On Snowpiercer
In a lot of ways, Snowpiercer is a mere shadow of films like The Road or I Am Legend, in the sense that humanity’s last remnants must struggle to survive after some great global calamity. However, it’s also about the Arab Spring. Maybe. Or about the Occupy movement. But, again, it’s not. It’s a film about humanity, or is it?
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My theory of cinema
The more I think about it, though, the more intrigued I’m getting about just what my conception of cinema is.
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The Unexpected Awesome of Birdman
I’m still reeling from Birdman. And I probably will be reeling for some time. It’s definitely a film you need to see more than once, I think. First impressions? Where before I believed The Grand Budapest Hotel deserved every Oscar it was nominated for, I’m now torn. Every performance in Birdman is sublime. The cinematography is flawless. The script, while […]
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Gone Girl
Maybe the point of this bizarre story of small-town America and the darkness beneath, is that there is no resolution, for the narrative or the audience. There is certainly no happy ending.
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Cinemaaaah, cont’d
I’ve been doing my best to take notes on as many films as I can, but for now I’ll just compile a list of those watched in the last fortnight… The 39 Steps (d. Hitchcock, 1935) Eyes Wide Shut (d. Kubrick, 1999)* OSS 117: Cairo Nest of Spies (d. Haznavicius, 2006) The Artist (d. Haznavicius, […]
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Michel Chion on film analysis
“The right way to work on a film – to avoid too closed an interpretation – seems to me to be to watch it several times with no precise intentions… As in a police enquiry, one should not set up any hierarchies or look in any particular direction. One should not banish emotions and projections, […]
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It Boy (2013)
I have a big soft spot — a cultured gooey centre, if you will — for French farces. Often romantic comedies, though also often full of slapstick and cases of mistaken identity, I’ll watch the lot. Unfortunately, this habit is dependent on whatever French films period — let alone any from a specific genre — […]
Daniel Binns 