What could've been campy, enjoyable fun was ruined by the absolutely abysmal lighting in this modern Alien-wanabe, and I suspect it's due to the low-qauilty cgi they were trying to hide (budget constraints I presume). What a shame. The ending gave it an extra half a star
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Landscape in the Mist 1988
Searching for films like this has almost become like a theme of my life; they're so freaking hard to find most of the time that it sometimes takes me months of searching to find them. But the beautiful thing about that is that a lot of the times, they're exactly the most special and rewarding endeavors. And "Landscape in the mist", as with my first Angelopoulos "Eternity and a Day", is exactly such an experience -- and possibly, the most…
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Au Hasard Balthazar 1966
In the most inconspicuous way imaginable, Bresson delivers a soft-textured, soft-spoken poem of a film that completely transcended my expectations.
But for the first bit of it, though, I wasn't feeling as affected by it as all that. In fact, the sensitivity of the emotions, and full pactness of the story was a bit staggering to me. But as time whent by, and the beauty started to really set in, I wished it would never end. I loved how uncartoonish…
