#dark film
SUBLIME CINEMA #598 - MIDSOMMAR
In recent years I’ve noticed several new directing names emerge - names that are tied with the horror genre, but these filmmakers are reaching for something deeper than typical genre pieces. Ari Aster, Jordan Peele, Julia Ducournau, David Lowery and Robert Eggers just to name a few.
Midsommar is one of the best of these hybrid horror films. Beautifully shot, gripping, and taken to a macabre and frenzied conclusion - it’s kind of a stunning and fearless movie. It’s still content to call itself horror (almost a safety blanket), but dig a bit deeper and see hints of Haneke, Bergman and David Lynch all there.
Also I’m glad that somebody finally realized that The Haxan Cloak is an ideal artist to enlist for dark film scores.
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SUBLIME CINEMA #596 - EASTERN PROMISES
One of Cronenberg’s best films (and probably my favorite) is Eastern Promises. His partnership with Viggo Mortensen started with the excellent the End of Violence, which was around the time that Cronenberg had been venturing towards pensive, dark dramas - Crash and Spider both preceded these films. And their collaboration will continue shortly with Crimes of the Future, his first return to body horror in a long long time.
I’m so glad he didn’t retire.
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SUBLIME CINEMA #594 - LOST HIGHWAY
This film was mesmerizing to me when it first came out and it still is. I hadn’t seen anything really like it; the malevolence of the music and image combined into something both provocative and stirring. Individual scenes still stand out: the video cassettes, Robert Loggia’s joy ride and Robert Blake’s phantom phone call.
Will David Lynch have a new film at Cannes this year? He said it was only a rumor - but the mill is still spinning.. Hoping..
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