5 November 2018: Suspiria
I was way too hard on it when I originally watched, probably because the thinness of the plot bothered me. Since then I’ve watched several more Argento films & they just served to confirm that I wasn’t a fan. Now that I’m older & wiser, & less a slave to the screenplay above all things, I appreciate how gorgeous it is. And while I’ve always loved Goblin, I tend to feel like their scores distract rather than enhance Argento’s films. Suspiria is the exception. I still don’t think it’s a perfect film, but it is undeniably beautiful, & ought to be experienced (or re-experienced) by every cinema aesthete.