Recently, I heard Jeanne Dielman described as "three and a half hours of a woman in her apartment going about her daily life. I watched it once in college when I was really depressed." I decided to watch it based on this description alone. A couple of the IMDB tags…
I recently asked people on Instagram to recommend “pretty and fartistic” movies to me, and I got several good suggestions. I picked the first two, The Terrorizers and La Notte, at random, and was pleasantly surprised to find that books and writers featured heavily in them. These movies were also very pretty, and I took a lot of screenshots for the blog. This might surprise you, but my screenshots skewed heavily towards the writing and books. And I have to say, even though of course I hate it when writing isn’t going well, it’s so satisfying to see writers in movies who are having a bit of a shitty time. At least, until I start relating to them!
I’ll show the books-and-writing ones first, and the other ones at the end – enjoy!
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Will spend the cooler months watching all the movies I should have watched by now. I'm happy to have finally watched the original Dawn of the Dead. Intensely moody and atmospheric, and strangely nostalgic even though this came out two years before I was born. I'm probably not supposed to…
Breathless/À bout de souffle, 1960. I know, I know, I'm the last person alive to have not yet seen this movie. I won't give a review of it or anything, mostly because I'm terrible at reviews but also because nobody needs yet another review of this classic film. All I…
Solaris, 1972 - the original! This is another great movie I randomly borrowed from my local library branch (see my previous post if you want to read me gush about the selection there). I enjoyed some of the out-of-context quotes in this one, as you can see. Of course, I…
An Angel at My Table, 1990. A surprising find from my local library (I love you, Nose Hill branch), which reliably has the best movies. I really enjoyed this movie, the story of it, but the imagery was stunning as well. I admit I didn't know anything about Janet Frame…
