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Secret Beyond the Door 1947
weirder than Rebecca, and therefore better -- it may not be as formally tight as Hitchcock, but because the imagery is more bizarre and opaque and its characters more pathological, it lands harder.
in Rebecca, the only real pathology is Mrs. Danvers', so it stays at a remove from us until the end, when its reveal resolves any tension, conflicted emotions or contradictory desires left. in Secret, the equivalent character is totally minimized. instead, the pathologies of Mark & Celia, the…
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Zigeunerweisen 1980
Connected w this, unlike other Suzuki films I’ve seen — this one is deeply emotional & evocative with me, in a way the others weren’t. Suzuki is an aestheticist first, obv — in his other movies that didn’t work me, even tho I am someone who values aesthetic maybe more than I should. But here, that quality in his work is thematized — aesthetics are what moves the content forward.
Nakasago makes a perfect villain / anti-hero — compelling and “evil."…
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The Spiral Staircase 1946
I like to see women cry. Men like to see women cry, it makes them feel superior.
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The Believers 1987
One of those movies that wants, on a conscious level, to explore & illuminate something (race, multiculturalism, the coming age of global capitalist integration) — but then functions much better as, subconsciously, a visual depiction of the paranoia, contradictions, and racism / xenophobia that are still latent in that well-meaning, liberal-minded perspective
This movie is very directly a horror genre manifestation of the fear of others, feeling alienated from others, mixing cultures — and I see now that its DOP is Robbie Muller (from the best Jarmusch, Von Trier & Wim Wenders films), so that might explain why this very flawed movie feels weirdly elevated
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The Sacred Spirit 2021
Absolutely unique mix of tones in this movie.
This is a movie where the main character is reprehensibly gullible, and yet it has a warm faith in (almost) all of its characters. I want to take a second pass at that sentence, I think this is something at the heart of the movie I’m struggling to get down: this is a film about a “searcher” who quietly, without seeing it, destroys his family by being too trusting of people who…
