Saw a couple good #movies this week. First up was the classic #Hitchcock adaptation of REBECCA, one of the all time great Gothic romance thrillers. We got to see a lovely print of it on the big screen at the iconic, beloved Hollywood Theater here in #Portland. It's an extremely subversive film for the era (1940!!), with brilliant #gender themes and brazen #queer subtext. Was presented as part of a queer film series and the crowd was brilliant - knowing and engaged but respectful. Superb
Art and artists really are strange. This film has a lot of really smart, thoughtful things to say about the relations between men and women, and the damage that power disparities cause. Yet we know about Hitchcock's treatment of women. Ain't that something.
If you have, and liked it, can you inspire me to do so too?
It was adapted from my grandmother’s book, but my Dad and her were estranged, and I’ve never been able to find a copy to watch.
Today, May 23, 2007, is 500 days after Tom Hansen met Summer Finn. He attends a job interview at an architecture firm and meets a girl named Autumn (500 Days of Summer, 2009)
Tonight's film club choice is Silent Running. When I bought it on DVD, the salesperson at Fopp said it was a classic and that I would like it, but I found it very boring and grim (and dated - there are no women other than in music / computer voices, bit like The Deadly Assassin).
7:30pm UK time, remote over Skype - DM me if you would like to attend (we don't publicise the URL widely now as we used to get Zoom-bombed)
I liked this one. It's not great, but it's well done and is a novel twist on the regular found footage ghost house type film. It's found footage ghost house at the bottom of a lake, in scuba gear.
This movie is one that is distressing to me in a unique way. I myself have been traveling with another person who was way more into chasing exotic sights than I was, and I also felt held captive by the other person.
Pure serendipity that I finally decided to watch "Lost In Translation" for the first time, been in my queue for weeks, the same week that OpenAI decided to steal Scarlett Johansson's voice for their Her-inspired voice system. #movies#OpenAI 2003 film directed by Sofia Coppola
This evening's viewing: a long-overdue revisit to Wings of Desire. First seen many years ago at my beloved Filmhouse, this was the #film that introduced me to Wim Wenders, who would become one of my favourite film-makers.
Achingly beautiful piece of cinema. How many amazing works did the Filmhouse introduce me to that I'd likely never have seen otherwise? So looking forward to its return later this year...