A more holistic documentation of my experience in film is necessary. I will offer a snapshot of my thoughts in a way which describes my experience in the medium. My thoughts will be organized through parallel hierarchies of films and directors.
Great
Synecdoche, New York to live one must acknowledge death--it is everything.
Lore the tragedy of adolescence is the most beautiful.
Inland Empire when art reaches peak subjectivity, maybe it is peak.
A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night everything is as it should be, but it is somewhere that cannot be.
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Noah Baumbach - the light of Frances Ha \ the dark of The Squid and the Whale
Nicholas Winding Refn - style: music, violence, dialogue (lack); the longing
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A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night |
Below Great
Blue is the Warmest Color / I struggle to relegate this film to even here. During the re-watch, I found myself recognizing an expanse I had not seen before. This film is about valuing things and acting on those valuations. How does one balance individual intimacy with societal acceptance? What price will one pay for societal or individual validation?
Mulholland Drive / The world is mysterious; we are comfortable. We feel the accumulation. But it falls, slowly--all of it. Just enough remains.
Taxi Driver / The power of the individual, specifically within the individual, is present in this film. A man is amidst a structure seemingly so pervasive, yet he is not pervaded. His mind holds him captive.
Apocalypse Now / This is a descent into ignorance.
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Adam Wingard - awareness of genre; satire; the power of apex
David Lynch - film as dreamstate; surreal
I am satisfied with this result. It is not comprehensive, but the effort was made.
Lynch is slipping away. The sea of fatality and angels I saw before only remains in abstraction. The second season of Twin Peaks has a leadening effect. Moment to moment the contrivances are a boredom, leaving only occasional escapes when killing imagery widens again to keep things in proximity to that Lynch-ness.
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