Film Stills

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 have fondness for the mall, but I can’t help it – I do. Will spend the cooler months watching all the movies I should have

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 can say was I liked it. Groundbreaking, eh? It was also interesting to me in one weird way: Jean Seberg in this movie resembled the

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 also enjoyed the look of it and took many photos of my TV as proof. I haven’t seen the remake yet, and honestly I’m not

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 before this, but I really need to correct that. And to think, I probably would have never watched this if I didn’t come across it