pans labyrinth is cool but really fucking overrated
Nostalghia Tarkovsky, 1983
Of all directors, it may be Tarkovsky alone whose works stand amongst the greats of literature. Perhaps most of us will never understand his films, perhaps he is right that art is untranslatable, but the viewing experience is so viscerally spiritual that - understood or not - it stays with you forever.
9.5/10
The Passenger Antonioni, 1975
Just fucking brilliant, in every way. Nicholson's best performance and maybe even his most interesting character. The story is mysterious and ingenius, the cinematography full of class, Schneider's gorgeous and the ending shot is a majestic tour de force.
9.5/10
Finding Nemo Pixar Studios, 2003
Chaw is right to call it a dark fairy tale, old themes are given new power by the humbling insignificance and alien horror that the great deep brings. Like the comically macabre dentist Pixar chafe away the dirt and rot to reveal that pulse which all truly great childhood movies have at their centre; the wonder and immersion of the greatest Disney flicks we spend our whole lives yearning to recapture.
8.5/10
Nostalghia Tarkovsky, 1983
Of all directors, it may be Tarkovsky alone whose works stand amongst the greats of literature. Perhaps most of us will never understand his films, perhaps he is right that art is untranslatable, but the viewing experience is so viscerally spiritual that - understood or not - it stays with you forever.
9.5/10
The Passenger Antonioni, 1975
Just fucking brilliant, in every way. Nicholson's best performance and maybe even his most interesting character. The story is mysterious and ingenius, the cinematography full of class, Schneider's gorgeous and the ending shot is a majestic tour de force.
9.5/10
Finding Nemo Pixar Studios, 2003
Chaw is right to call it a dark fairy tale, old themes are given new power by the humbling insignificance and alien horror that the great deep brings. Like the comically macabre dentist Pixar chafe away the dirt and rot to reveal that pulse which all truly great childhood movies have at their centre; the wonder and immersion of the greatest Disney flicks we spend our whole lives yearning to recapture.
8.5/10
