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I’ve never seen a David Lynch movie until watching Mulholland Drive, and wow, it was a confusing ride. It feels like a series of surreal vignettes with an ever-growing cast of side characters and subplots. Starting off coherent at first, it all soon dissolves into dream logic, and there was definitely a specific breaking point where I stopped being able to tell past from present or reality…
I watched Gozu, a surreal Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike. The story follows a low-level yakuza tasked with eliminating his unhinged partner, but the former loses track of the latter’s body. From this point on, the plot spirals into an unexplainable series of uncomfortable phenomena. Basically, the protagonist happens upon a series of characters who disturbingly overstep each…
Visually, wow. The movie is packed with massive, meditative drone shots that soar over mountains, skim the edges of canyons, and hover around mysterious ruins and temples that have survived centuries of weather and human bumbling. The filmmakers successfully capture how tiny we are, tossing in scenes where cities and roads look like nothing compared to endless valleys and jagged mountain faces.…
(French: La Planète sauvage; Czech: Divoká planeta, lit. ‘The Wild Planet’) Fantastic Planet is an unforgettable French-language animated film from the early ’70s. The animation has an old-school, hand-crafted feel. The colors are notably quiet and faded and the lines are visibly hand-drawn, which gives it a distinctive charm. Some objects move too abruptly, but despite its…
Trying to focus on a smaller range of hues…
Just using watercolor brushes