* Damien: Omen II (Taylor, 1978)|||||4
Visually capable, but a story that could have teemed with subtext, as something of cruel, messianic scripture taking place in modern times, is just increasingly utterly subtextless, adamantly disinterested in emotions in the rush to serve horrendously dumb schematics. Even genre films could have sprawl back in the 70's storytelling heyday (a horror film taking place in a military academy? Neat.), and this held a place in my imagination as a child, but clearly the Omen franchise is a vacuum.
Noah (Aronofsky, 2014)|||||5
The Unknown Known (Morris, 2014)|||||7
* Body Snatchers (Ferrara, 1993)|||||4.5
Tess (Polanski, 1979)|||||6.5
Oculus (Flanagan, 2014)|||||4.5
Young Soul Rebels (Julien, 1991)|||||5
* Exorcist II: The Heretic (Boorman, 1977)|||||6.5
I suppose one cannot refuse to understand the "petulant bro" reaction of douchebag audiences of 1977 or Friedkin immediately calling Boorman an anonymous movie-making moron. In my theater screening of this last night, I could feel the viewers around me trying desperately but failing to commodify this experience of such little sense and long, drawn-out scope. This is not a night-out movie. It's alternately painful and painfully beautiful, a screaming, shrieking religious adventure, and experience. Cinepassion on Exorcist II
Scenes from a Marriage (Television Version) (Bergman, 1973)|||||8
Workers, Peasants (Straub, Huillet, 2002)|||||7
Mes petites amoureuses (Eustache, 1974)|||||6.5
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (Levine, 2006)|||||4.5
Gummo (Korine, 1997)|||||6
Welp, I can take back my haughty prognostication. Surprised, but I found this cloying debut feature better than Spring Breakers.
Nymphomaniac Vol. 2 (Von Trier, 2014)|||||7
Miami Vice (Mann, 2006)|||||5.5
Maniac Cop (Lustig, 1988)|||||4
Conan the Barbarian (Milius, 1983)|||||6.5
Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 (Von Trier, 2014)|||||8
