The bleakness of sky. The sound of waves. The sense of doom. The Crusades have ended (for good?) and people are at their worst (fanatics burning the insane, the thirst for abuse and violence) with the increasing Plague around the corner. It’s the most horrible of times, and one man starts to question “Is it worth it?”

That man is Antonius Block, an exhausted knight on his way home with his merry little band of fellow-travelers, and these people are…

I kind-of had other plans but Vincent Gallo ruined my day.

Billy Brown goes to jail for a crime he didn’t commit.

He brings Layla home, even though his parents are so out of care for him, out of this world that the whole situation seems unnecessary. (Who is he really doing this for?)

It’s the mommy who’s more ridiculously into catching last night’s game (“I wish I hadn’t you so I could watch the game” ridiculous)… than daddy who…

" Dave… My mind is going… "

Re-visited it for the second time in a row on the big screen. Yes, I am a fortunate human being.

Last encounter was in the very same theater some good years ago and man I am not going to re-watch this until the next time they show it up there somewhere. How could I, on any smaller screen? This kind of experience is both a blast and a curse. The hair-raising opening titles,…

Whit Stillman stands out. Even though his films center around young, articulate and attractive people, he is the star of his outputs. At first, he reminded me of Woody Allen (Talkative, adventurous and oh so very “white”) but while Allen pumps it up to eleven in some of his dizziest moments, Stillman remains calm - on the surface at least, giving the impression that he might come off as self-indulgent or boring. Neither takes have my agreement. As his usual,…

If I had to put it in words, I'd say non-linear narratives make us involved in the experience on a noticeably special level. As if we're faced with an unfinished sentence, we are supposed to fill the blanks ourselves. We play an obvious, sometimes challenging part in the process (Think of putting the pieces together when reading As I Lay Dying or watching 21 Grams) and in finer examples the works bring their emotional punch home too (Memento, Irreversible).

At…

He follows the red woman. He’s seduced by her warmth; he’s hypnotized by the distance she goes to find pleasure - even and especially in pain. He’s thirsty so he obeys her and whatever she’s selling; to the point that she’s not even she but a vision of her and along the way, as he’s walking dark interiors of deception he loses his body, his identity, his reality. He’s re-birthed as nothing but a handgun grown out of his arm…

Burton. Fletcher. Mufasa. Sydow. Morricone. Boorman. Goodheart: This might very well be Arya Stark’s updated Kill List. Such big names all gathered around to make a sequel to perhaps The essential horror film and they’re trying to forget it happened ever since. I am not among its most ionate haters (2st worst movie of all time? Come on)… but dear God how did this happen?

By its end though, I was convinced that this movie is not taking place in…

[…] in this town... In these times... It's very impolite not to eat what's set before you.

Tom blackmails Grace from the very start.

Why would I want to re-visit Dogville? Maybe I’m curious to see if it holds up as the harrowing experience it was the first or second time around (it does) but another reason would be that, maybe I can spot the exact point where everything start to go to hell. Maybe we can trace the footsteps…