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LXIX: Tideland (Terry Gilliam 2005)
The missing link between The Adventures of Barron Munchausen and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - in case you were looking for one - and another film like Celia and Heavenly Creatures dependent on subjective world views of younbg girls. All somewhat disturbing and I really can't see why it was burried...
The mother (Jennifer Tilley) of Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) dies of an overdose and so she is taken by her dad (Jeff Bridges) to the strange house of her grandmother, where she meets the strange old woman Dell (Janet McTeer) and her strange brother/lover Dickens (Brendan Fletcher) and strange things happen...
The film keeps having references to Alice's rabbit hole and often it is as if we have fallen down one into a wonderland of a distinctly Grimm nature; the camera moves most of the time - cowers - and is rarely parallel to the horizon. Squirels and doll's heads talk to Jeliza-Rose, and clearly most of the film (which does stray out of her line sight) needs to be understood as her coping mechanism, including a sexual awakening. Ferland is infinitely superior to the child performance in Munchausen of Sally (Sarah Polley) - although not without its annoyances. And I can safely say that Bridges will never be more laid back.
In an option preface, Gilliam notes that many people will dislike the film. I can see why.
LXX: My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
I've never been a great fan of westerns, and this does not make me change my mind. It's a revenge story: two of the Earo brothers leave James Earp in charge of their cattle whilst they go into Tomstone, and return to find him dead, killed by the Clayton brothers. Wyatt becomes marshall and, with the aid of Doc Holliday, seeks revenge. Bang. Bang. Bang.
It follows the usual rules of westerns, and has the fantastic Monument Valley, but it just doesn't press my buttons - although The Searchers and Stagecoach do. Maybe I just prefer John Wayne to Henry Fonda. I can just about see its Top 100 status
That being said - there is some excellent photography and shot construction, and the odd stand out line.
Totals: 70 (Cinema: 25; DVD: 43; TV: 2)
The missing link between The Adventures of Barron Munchausen and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - in case you were looking for one - and another film like Celia and Heavenly Creatures dependent on subjective world views of younbg girls. All somewhat disturbing and I really can't see why it was burried...
The mother (Jennifer Tilley) of Jeliza-Rose (Jodelle Ferland) dies of an overdose and so she is taken by her dad (Jeff Bridges) to the strange house of her grandmother, where she meets the strange old woman Dell (Janet McTeer) and her strange brother/lover Dickens (Brendan Fletcher) and strange things happen...
The film keeps having references to Alice's rabbit hole and often it is as if we have fallen down one into a wonderland of a distinctly Grimm nature; the camera moves most of the time - cowers - and is rarely parallel to the horizon. Squirels and doll's heads talk to Jeliza-Rose, and clearly most of the film (which does stray out of her line sight) needs to be understood as her coping mechanism, including a sexual awakening. Ferland is infinitely superior to the child performance in Munchausen of Sally (Sarah Polley) - although not without its annoyances. And I can safely say that Bridges will never be more laid back.
In an option preface, Gilliam notes that many people will dislike the film. I can see why.
LXX: My Darling Clementine (John Ford, 1946)
I've never been a great fan of westerns, and this does not make me change my mind. It's a revenge story: two of the Earo brothers leave James Earp in charge of their cattle whilst they go into Tomstone, and return to find him dead, killed by the Clayton brothers. Wyatt becomes marshall and, with the aid of Doc Holliday, seeks revenge. Bang. Bang. Bang.
It follows the usual rules of westerns, and has the fantastic Monument Valley, but it just doesn't press my buttons - although The Searchers and Stagecoach do. Maybe I just prefer John Wayne to Henry Fonda. I can just about see its Top 100 status
That being said - there is some excellent photography and shot construction, and the odd stand out line.
Totals: 70 (Cinema: 25; DVD: 43; TV: 2)
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