Holds up very nicely to a second viewing, but with Aster’s attention to detail I would expect nothing less. You get the feeling everything you see & hear in the film matters, if you could only put the pieces together correctly.
6 December 2018: Annihilation
This time around some of the cgi looked a little fake, but I noticed how amazingly creepy the score is, so it’s a wash in terms of rating change. Still love it.
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.
22 July 2018: Blood Simple
Finally got around to the Criterion version I’d gotten for Xmas. Looks & sounds gorgeous. Tough to think of any American filmmakers who’ve made better twisty turny crime stories. I love that our two “heroes” here have close to no idea wtf is going on. Classic Coens.
7 June 2018: Hereditary
Holds up very nicely to a second viewing, but with Aster’s attention to detail I would expect nothing less. You get the feeling everything you see & hear in the film matters, if you could only put the pieces together correctly.