My first real attempt at understanding the brilliance that was Stanley Kubrick came in my freshman year of college, when I wrote a research paper on 2001: A Space Odyssey for an English class. After all that work, I only received a B and found myself more confused than ever. But there it was – the spark that Stanley Kubrick’s work produces. Kubrick’s best films were experiences; it’s impossible to “half-watch” one of his many masterpieces. And that’s what the movies on this list do. They take you on an odyssey of visual wonder, psychological tremors, and expect you to do as much work as the people involved in the making of the films. Yet, in the end, Kubrick’s films didn’t feel like homework. They felt like vacations to a world where deep thought is a welcome respite.
20. The Thin Red Line (1998)
Directed by Terrence Malick
What makes it Kubrickian?...
20. The Thin Red Line (1998)
Directed by Terrence Malick
What makes it Kubrickian?...
- 3/19/2014
- by Joshua Gaul
- SoundOnSight
The Mayans, the wise race of ancients who created hot cocoa, set December 21st, 2012 as the end date of their Calendar, which the intelligent and logical amongst us know signifies the day the world will end, presumably at 12:21:12am, Mountain Time. From now until zero date, we will explore the 50 films you need to watch before the entire world perishes. We don’t have much time, so be content, be prepared, be entertained. The Film: The Phantom Carriage (1921) It’s New Year’s Eve and in the story of this film’s mythos it is said that the last human being to die on the stroke of midnight of the new year is to take on the responsibility of reaping the souls of the dead for the next 365 days. In the lifespan of Death a minute’s worth of the human clock is like a lifetime, filled with the torture of bearing the endless task...
- 5/18/2012
- by Adam Charles
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Directed by Victor Sjostrom
Written by Selma Lagerlof and Victor Sjostrom
Cinematography by Julius Jaenzon
For many, the tired face and defeated body of Victor Sjostrom became synonymous with mortality in Ingmar Bergman’s pivotal film, Wild Strawberries. Few know that he was not only Bergman’s mentor but one of cinema’s greatest filmmakers. For Bergman, there was no greater film than Sjostrom’s The Phantom Carriage and he would revisit it yearly, often on a summer day, losing himself in it’s angst and plays of light.
There are many similarities between Wild Strawberries and The Phantom Carriage. The most obvious being the central force of Sjostrom, who not only directs The Phantom Carriage but stars in it as well. Both are about men hardened by life, forced to confront and reflect upon their empty existence. Sjostrom plays a much younger man in his own film,...
Directed by Victor Sjostrom
Written by Selma Lagerlof and Victor Sjostrom
Cinematography by Julius Jaenzon
For many, the tired face and defeated body of Victor Sjostrom became synonymous with mortality in Ingmar Bergman’s pivotal film, Wild Strawberries. Few know that he was not only Bergman’s mentor but one of cinema’s greatest filmmakers. For Bergman, there was no greater film than Sjostrom’s The Phantom Carriage and he would revisit it yearly, often on a summer day, losing himself in it’s angst and plays of light.
There are many similarities between Wild Strawberries and The Phantom Carriage. The most obvious being the central force of Sjostrom, who not only directs The Phantom Carriage but stars in it as well. Both are about men hardened by life, forced to confront and reflect upon their empty existence. Sjostrom plays a much younger man in his own film,...
- 12/19/2011
- by Justine
- SoundOnSight
One of Criterion's new releases this week is Victor Sjostrom's 1921 ghost story [amazon asin="B0056ANHSQ" text="The Phantom Carriage"] and it is a showstopper I can't help but recommend. I haven't yet had the chance to dig through the special features or listen to the commentary, but while the supplements appear to be largely dedicated to the effect this film had on the career of Ingmar Bergman, and the reasons for that become more and more obvious as the film plays on, the one thing that stuck out to me, and nearly blew me over it was so spot on, was the obvious influence this film had on one of my favorite filmmakers.
Everyone knows the famous axe scene in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining as Jack Nicholson hacks away at the bathroom door, his wife and child on the other side scared for their lives... Chop, chop, chop... Here's Johnny! It's an iconic moment and...
Everyone knows the famous axe scene in Stanley Kubrick's The Shining as Jack Nicholson hacks away at the bathroom door, his wife and child on the other side scared for their lives... Chop, chop, chop... Here's Johnny! It's an iconic moment and...
- 9/28/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
"A specter is haunting Carlos (both the film and its title character)," writes Budd Wilkins in Slant, "the specter of Che Guevara gazing down from his iconic poster like a pop-cultural patron saint, an image glimpsed often in early scenes, most notably on the wall of the Rue Toullier apartment where, in part one's most stunning set piece, Carlos (Édgar Ramírez) guns down three French Secret Service agents and the man who betrayed him. Comparisons between the two men, and consequently the films that tell their stories, are therefore inevitable. Whereas Steven Soderbergh's two-part Che tarted up its revolutionary philosophy in formalist finery, losing the resonance of personal passions and leeching away any sense of urgency or momentum in the name of rigor, Olivier Assayas's bigger and bolder three-part saga infuses the geopolitical thriller with both dynamism and detail, an always precarious yet thrillingly executed tightrope act of balance.
- 9/27/2011
- MUBI
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