Guillermo Del Toro's Film Noir & remake of a classic film about a grifting sideshow carny. Permeated with a dark ambience, great set pieces and props, good performances by Cate Blanchett, Ron Perlman, Willem Dafoe, that said it grows a little stale and old when you can see the ending clear as day a mere 20 minutes into the film. After which it becomes a tired exercise in seeing how it realizes itself. Meh. Although - the sideshow attractions, the tarot cards, the good Psychiatrist's office - they all serve to inspire, merely a less predictable plot would have driven it along a lot better.
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Serendipity, this, downloaded on a whim, enjoyed it very much. A pretty clean, writ large layout of "The Hero's Journey", with some intriguing symbolism and details.
I'm pretty sure I read this once, should read it again, it fits in with a few of my own projects and was appropriate to the moment. I love it when that happens.
Very good. You might enjoy.
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Night off, take advantage of the big city to see a movie.
I liked this. Wes Anderson, he's a master of visual storytelling - embodying humor, irony, satire, nothing too "meaningful", but therein lies his charm.
The instantly recognizable visual styles, the amusing and irrelevant camera tricks, background "jokes", he is - after his own fashion - a genius.
A wonderful ensemble cast (the same players as always), 3 stories on diverse themes - love, art, crime, not every one as much to my taste, but all brilliant.
Worthwhile.
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Killing time in Hope. The Hope Cinema - period, restored, 1945 - is showing "Antlers" by Guillermo del Toro.
I like his work.
This film, meh - it's set is too close to home - it could be any village on the lower mainland - brooding fog, despair, the run down houses and troubled people. You only needed the footage of the people, the places, paired with a good soundtrack to build up an infinitely deeper and more melancholy sort of horror film.
Anyways, I liked the "Monster" - terrific, and the boys artwork was bloody amazing, made me want to pick up a pen and paper.
But - the movie - well, look where I am at the moment. Read my post about Hope. And - lemme tell you - if I had a decent WI-FI connection (here, it's being used by hundreds, sooooooo....not so good) I'd upload some photos and you would see for yourself...
(Just found out 4 days of filming were done in Hope, as well as other BC locales. Which explains it!)
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