Out to own today:
A Ghost Story
 | “It will all go,” Prognosticator (Will Oldham) Eerie rather than scary. Transcendentally lofty. A film that gets better and better as it proceeds. Hearing the title might conjure two alternative feelings: That it might be generic (it mostly definitely is not), and the proceeding narrative might be the sort you tell round an open fire on a winter’s night (no to such too). One does not expect the grandiose to unfold in a non-cinematic aspect ratio, 1:37:1. Journeying across centuries surely needs widescreen? Yet it works, like so much of the counterintuitive creative choices. Writer-director David Lowery did not quite out arthouse Terrence Malick with AIN’T THEM BODIES SAINTS (contrast BADLANDS), but A GHOST STORY is far superior to the overrated TREE OF LIFE. [To read more, click here.] |
New World
 | “We need to intervene,” Section Chief Kang (Choi Min-sik) The writer behind I SAW THE DEVIL was always going to have one’s attention, having created a devastating and brutal take on revenge shepherded by director Kim Jee-Woon. Here, Park Hoon-jung directs his own script. And what a thriller he has fashioned. Set in the modern world of cops and gangsters, he still manages to riff on a major theme in CONAN THE BARBARIAN, as well as BREAKING BAD. [To read more, click here.] |
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