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“A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night may be my film of the year (it’s a close contest with Locke). But it’s not enough to say it’s superior to bogus conflations like InterstellarandGone Girl, or the contrived, studious do-goodism of Masterpiece Theatre pictures such as The Theory of EverythingandThe Imitation Game. Those comparisons only flatter the mainstream pictures, and dull the dirty radiance of this first feature film, written and directed by Ana Lily Amirpour. It’s not even that she has tossed off a casual masterpiece fit to live beside the best work of her evident forebear, David Lynch. No, A Girl is to be judged on a higher plane still, one that includes the visions of Jean Vigo, Jean Cocteau, and Luis Buñuel. This is a dream on your screen, absurd, languid (if not slow), and possessed by the calm of an inevitable beauty. This is what cinema was invented for, a rapture in the school of the surreal, indifferent to the time-wasting fallacy that movies have, or should have, anything to do with realism.“ - David Thomson [x]
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- “Persepolis”, directed by Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud, 2007.
- “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night”, directed by Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014.
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Top: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night / 2014 / dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
Bottom: Bringing Up Baby / 1938 / dir. Howard Hawks
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If there was a storm coming right now, a big storm from behind those mountains, would it change anything?
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, 2014. A film by Ana Lily Amirpour.
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I’ve done bad things.
Spooky season is upon us and there are plenty of must-see films to celebrate Halloween. Three Sundance films made it onto IndieWire’s 12 Best Vampire Movies Ever Made.
Swooping in at number 8, Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s What We Do in the Shadows premiered during the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. At number 5, Cronos, Guillermo del Toro’s first feature screened at the 1994 Festival. Finally at number 4, Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive screened at the 2014 Festival.
Though not on IndieWire’s list, another film you can sink your teeth into is Ana Lily Amirpour‘s 2014 vampire western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.
1: Film still by Kane Skennar, courtesy of What We Do in the Shadows; 2: Film still courtesy of Cronos; 3: Film still by Gordon A. Timpen, courtesy of Only Lovers Left Alive; 4: Film still by Lyle Vincent, courtesy of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.
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