For the Allan Fish Film Festival, amidst the absurd hype and controversy for Christopher Nolan's upcoming take, I look at the only other major movie version of The Odyssey, and muse on the poem's larger imprint on pop culture. Read it at Film Freedonia...
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I did a Spielberg Top Ten or so I can live with.
Duel
Jaws
Close Encounters
Raiders/ 2nd half of Temple of Doom
Color Purple
Empire Of The Sun
Saving Private Ryan
Catch Me If You Can / Minority Report
Lincoln
Fabelmans
Possible ringers: War of the Worlds, West Side Story
Rewatch: Mario Bava's The Three Faces of Fear, aka Black Sabbath. Somehow this is both close to a perfect horror movie, particularly taking each story in and of itself, but also highlights a problem with anthology films: there's a slight repetitiveness to the whole.
You can see ancestry of the Backrooms "liminal horror" trend in 1970s sci-fi and horror - particularly Fonda's Idaho Transfer, but also stuff like Andromeda Strain, Coma, Phase IV, even a certain Night Stalker episode. It's just been given a more overt Kafka-Piranesian makeover.
@GordonCramsay Maybe that feeling so many have that modern architecture and environs amplifies the sense of alienation from institutions already apparent in Kafka's time.
Rewatch: Bob Kelljan's Count Yorga, Vampire. Superb little film that smartly updates vampire mythos for the Manson era, Dracula as New Age parasite; full of impressive nastiness, good (and then startling) twists, barely-hidden kink.
For the Allan Fish Film Festival, amidst the absurd hype and controversy for Christopher Nolan's upcoming take, I look at the only other major movie version of The Odyssey, and muse on the poem's larger imprint on pop culture. Read it at Film Freedonia...
https://t.co/zhBEhsNGNt
New at Film Freedonia (yay!), Mario Camerini's Ulysses, the progenitor sword-and-sandal film where Pabst, Bava, Spartacus, Rambo, and Nolan all lurk in the wings:
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@europe133394753 He does just good enough a job not to be a hindrance for the great work put in front of him. Generally, though, I think it's a much better movie than usually allowed.
For the Allan Fish Film Festival, amidst the absurd hype and controversy for Christopher Nolan's upcoming take, I look at the only other major movie version of The Odyssey, and muse on the poem's larger imprint on pop culture. Read it at Film Freedonia...
https://t.co/zhBEhsNGNt