3 things about Luchino Visconti’s DEATH IN VENICE

Posted on July 12, 2019 by robchristopher

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.

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3 things about Todd Solondz’s DARK HORSE

Posted on July 11, 2019 by robchristopher

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.

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3 things about Michael Haneke’s HAPPY END

Posted on July 10, 2019 by robchristopher

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.

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3 things about James Mangold’s LOGAN

Posted on July 9, 2019 by robchristopher

Logan [2017]

1. He admonishes the nurses not to view them as children.
2. Going to the bathroom.
3. A grass shroud.

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3 things about Mick Jackson’s THREADS

Posted on July 1, 2019 by robchristopher

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.

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3 things about Todd Douglas Miller’s APOLLO 11

Posted on June 29, 2019 by robchristopher

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.

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3 things about Joseph H. Lewis’s MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS

Posted on June 17, 2019 by robchristopher

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.

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3 things about François Ozon’s FRANTZ

Posted on June 15, 2019 by robchristopher

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.

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3 things about Alex Thompson & Kelly O’Sullivan’s SAINT FRANCES

Posted on June 14, 2019 by robchristopher

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.

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3 things about Yorgos Lanthimos’s THE FAVOURITE

Posted on June 10, 2019 by robchristopher

The Favourite [2018]

1. “Must the duck be here?”
2. Sectional lace-up leather corset.
3. “Have you come to seduce me or rape me?”
“I am a gentleman.”
“So, rape then.”

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