The way I see it, The VVitch is better than The Lighthouse which is better than The Northman which is better than Nosferatu. So, yeah, each of Eggers’ movies has been worse than the last. Gladly, he started with one of the all-time greats, so he has room to work with.
Okay, so halfway through the list. I was going to say we have our first Best Film Oscar winner, but that’s not true, as Unforgiven was in part 1.
Some legendary directors today. I guess there’s going to be legedary directors on most days, but I had to say something today.
Well, it was bound to happen soon as he recently let it be known that he was confined to his home for health reasons… and he was 78 year old lifelong smoker who had just been evacuated from his home under circumstances that hurt the lungs of much younger and healthier people than him.
This is as close to a musical day as we can get on this list.
So, finally, here we go. I mean, you don’t have any idea how much time I’ve spent on this, so no-one can have the same kind of emotional connection to this list as I do, but here hopefully there are people out there who do find this interesting at the very least.
Today we get real and as far from real as we can get.
That time again. Yey.
Note: I noticed that since this has been written over a quite a long period of time, my tenses kept changing. I did try to fix it, but I’m not sure I was able to.
I can’t claim to be an expert on feminism but it felt like it was trying to take the whole movement a couple of waves back.
Usual caveat applies. I haven’t seen all the interesting movies from this year as often movies do take time to find their way here, so I will make another list at some point.
For context, Psycho was released only 3 years later, so it isn’t as if there weren’t more modern horror films at least in the horizon. At the same time, this feels like a typical example of a 50s horror movie in many ways. Giant animals were pretty common, because those movies were easy enough to make with the technology available. This just goes the other route: Instead of radiation growing ants or lizards or something, there just happens to be a man who shrinks.