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BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE

October 14, 2018 By Leave a Comment

BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE

Drew Goddard crafts tales that are multi-layered and philosophically challenging. From his days in the Whedon-verse to the deliciously exercise in meta-text, CABIN IN THE WOODS, there is always much more going on than the surface narrative. And so it is with BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE, which may not be the flawless wonder… Read More »

Tagged With: Allegory, California-Nevada border, hotel, neo-noir, suspense

HIGH-RISE

April 30, 2016 By 1 Comment

HIGH-RISE

There is nothing subtle about HIGH-RISE, a savage allegorical satire of manic energy and pointed symbolism. Based on the novel of the same name by J.G. Ballard, it stars Tom Hiddleston as an urbane neurologist about to discover his place in the social order, and Jeremy Irons as The Architect (how Masonic?), the emotionally constipated… Read More »

Tagged With: Allegory, anarchy, book to screen, class struggle, J G. Ballard, revolution, Sci-fi, speculative fiction, symbolism

WOMAN IN THE DUNES (SUNA NO ONNA)

February 9, 2016 By Leave a Comment

WOMAN IN THE DUNES (SUNA NO ONNA)

WOMAN IN THE DUNES, based on the novel by screenwriter Kôbô Abe, is the kind of film that sparks all manner of discussion over what it all means. When it arrived stateside in 1964, it was hyped as being wildly erotic. Well, there are a few shy nude shots of the winsome leading lady, but its eroticism, replete… Read More »

Tagged With: Allegory, book to screen, dunes, entomology, Japanese Cinema, Kôbô Abe, sandpit, tumescent therm

THE REVENANT

January 7, 2016 By Leave a Comment

THE REVENANT

With THE REVENANT, Alejandro González Iñárritu has taken the true story of early 19th-century frontier scout Hugh Glass, and admirably manipulated it into a spiritual journey of savage poetry. Glass’s story, rendered cinematically in the 1970’s by Richard Harris in MAN IN THE WILDERNESS, becomes much more here. Iñárritu uses the bare bones of the… Read More »

Tagged With: Allegory, based on a true story, frontier, Native Americans, Nineteenth Century, Saint Sebastian, South Dakota, trappers

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