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THE LIGHTHOUSE

October 26, 2019 By 1 Comment

THE LIGHTHOUSE

A dark and twisted fever dream of a film, THE LIGHTHOUSE confronts the anguish of the human condition with suitable horror and an equally suitable dash of absurdity. Rendered in disturbing grades of black and white, it presents two men tending a lighthouse on a desolate rocky outcropping in the middle of nowhere. In the… Read More »

Tagged With: black and white, homoeroticism, horror, lighthouse, madness, mermaid, scrimshaw

BUSTER’S MAL HEART

May 6, 2017 By Leave a Comment

BUSTER’S MAL HEART

It becomes clear early on that at some point in Jonas’ life, he has taken leave of his senses.  Or, rather, his world has come apart at the seams, and his mind has done its poor best to reconstruct it using odds and ends. Told in the not necessarily linear way that the mind operates… Read More »

Tagged With: burglary, castaway, Christmas, concierge, conspiracy, hostage, madness, manhunt, New Year, sheriff

THE HOMESMAN

November 29, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE HOMESMAN

Tommy Lee Jones is a dour man, at least on screen. His carefully cultivated persona is a laconic one of few words and little patience. It is a character that he plays to perfection, and in THE HOMESMAN,he imbues it with a wonderful, understated quirkiness that makes his star quality all the more charismatic. As… Read More »

Tagged With: books to film, cinema, film, Hilary Swank, madness, movie, Nebraska, prairie, Tommy Lee Jones, western

SPIDER

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

SPIDER

David Cronenberg’s particular genius is getting inside our deepest, most primal fears, the ones that exist in the id and are impervious to any assuaging from the land of logic. Hence in RABID, Marilyn Chambers grows something suspiciously phallic in a most unexpected place, in VIDEODROME, our televisions turn on us, and in DEAD RINGERS,… Read More »

Tagged With: art as seduction, book to screen, censorship, David Cronenberg, delusion, director, horror, madness, mental illness, murder, mystery, Patrick McGrath, schizophrenia, silence as sound, suspense

David Cronenberg’s SPIDER

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

David Cronenberg’s SPIDER

David Cronenberg is on familiar turf with his latest film, SPIDER. The twist is that, while the film is rife with the horror, it stems from seeing the sane world through the eyes of a schizophrenic. When I talked with the soft-spoken and erudite director, I asked why he eschewed his usual trappings of blood and gore.… Read More »

Tagged With: art as seduction, book to screen, censorship, David Cronenberg, delusion, director, horror, madness, mental illness, murder, mystery, Patrick McGrath, schizophrenia, silence as sound, suspense

Tony Gilroy Pulls the Strings on MICHAEL CLAYTON

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Tony Gilroy Pulls the Strings on MICHAEL CLAYTON

Tony Gilroy is no stranger to the inner workings of law firms. He researched how things operated while writing the screenplay for THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE, but with MICHAEL CLAYTON, which marks his directorial debut, he kept things strictly out of the supernatural realm while still exploring the evil at work in the world. When we… Read More »

Tagged With: cinema, corporate ethics, director, directorial debut, drama, film, George Clooney, law firms, lawsuits, lies, loneliness, madness, madness as sanity, MICHAEL CLAYTON, movie, narrative, sanity, Tilda Swinton, Tony Gilroy, truth, writer

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