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2024

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First of all, I think it’s adorable they made Nosferatu look like Friedrich Nietzsche in this new version. That actually’s great. He looks nothing like Murnau’s waking nightmare with rat teeth, nor Herzog’s sickly poet. 

Anyways. To my surprise, I actually mostly liked this new one, even a lot in some ways. It’s the first time I’ve ever sensed Robert Eggers—who, along with David Robert Mitchell (It Follows), invented this sort of new(er) wave subgenre of cinema literate “art horror”…

1982

Rewatched 21 Dec 2024

I’m always impressed by how strangely colorful the art direction and cinematography are in The Thing as much as I'm amazed at how effective it is as far as its creepiness and tense paranoia are. The atmosphere of dread is real. There are noir-y shadows and moody, spooky corridors. Yet this film is full of rich blues, purples, pinks, and oranges. It’s not monochrome.

Though l'll always feel a little let down by the final monster reveal (it's pretty anticlimactic…

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1984

★★★★★ Liked 1

I want to make one thing clear: Dune IS A DAVID LYNCH FILM. 

Giant floating heads, lots of closeups of eyeballs rolling around and nostrils flaring, whispering, drop dead gorgeous looking characters right next to terrifying looking characters in the same scene, air conditioning sounds, wind sounds, breathing sounds, ambient silence one second followed by deafening cacophony the next, crazy hairdos, strobe lights, steam, pipes, tubes, tunnels, ominous hallways and corridors… I mean, seriously. It’s all there! It’s totally David Lynch world, and people who think his Dune is not “a David Lynch film” need to just sit down.

2001

★★★★★ Liked 1

Lynch’s ultimate masterpiece. I guess like a lot of great things, David Lynch is one of those artists who you could say The Internet might’ve ruined—The Internet rendering all that is poetic, personal, and profound into something that’s not novel or special anymore. Instantly meme-able, instantly clickable, instantly forgettable. Ubiquitized into digital ether. The one of a kind cinema experience that is “Lynch” no longer cinema but posts, poses, and gestures. His films’ wonderful moods and atmospheres no longer moody.…

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