ph: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
Monday, April 12, 2021
The Other Side of the Wind (2018)
A Hollywood director emerges from semi-exile with plans to complete work on an innovative motion picture.
Posthumously reconstructed Orson Welles film is probably as haphazard and incoherent as its production history, with a complex, barely film-within-a-film plot, massive experimentation with all kinds of cinematic trickery and an overpopulated cast, but besides seemingly random shots, there are many moments of sheer beauty and pure genius.
Sunday, April 11, 2021
1408 (2007)
A man who specialises in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Above-average Stephen King adaptation
delivers the scary goods with a good John Cusack performance, but after a
genuinely doom-laden introduction slowly goes over the top and adds an
ambiguous ending.
Maltin***: "Genuinely scary chiller, nicely paced with clever touches, brings new meaning to the Carpenters' song "We've Only Just Begun.""
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