Today rewatched ‘Interview with the Vampire’(1994)

“now look with your vampire eyes”

“They know about us. They watch us dine on empty plates and drink from empty glasses.”

“The statue seemed to move, but didn’t. The world had changed, yet stayed the same. I was a newborn vampire weeping at the beauty of the night”

“We reached the Mediterranean. I wanted those waters to be blue, but they were black, nighttime waters”

“We searched village after village, country after country. And always we found nothing. I began to believe we were the only ones. There was a strange comfort in that thought. For what could the damned really have to say to the damned?”

“Do you know how few vampires have the stamina for immortality? How quickly they perish of their own will? The world changes, we do not. Therein lies the irony that finally kills us”

yeah kubrick’s final film, what a note to leave on. When this was released in 99 I was still in high school, and driving past the cinema where it was showing, even being so young and knowing nothing verily I sensed the significance of this, but didn’t have the independence of thought etc to delve further. Though it would no doubt have been quite a trip to see this in the context of the general public, verily it is only now that I can understand the full significance of the film and in particular the ‘masked ball scene’ arguably one of finest expressions of ‘The Mystery’ to be put to film. The password for admittance is fidelio. And the password for the house? Also fidelio. It is a trick question that mirrors faithfulness itself, perturabo in Crowlean speak – a commitment to a vision – to see vision through as being the acid test of gold/value. ‘Get rich or die trying’ can be paraphrased as ‘forge the best of all possible worlds or die with your hand holding your balls’, both outcomes ultimately being good outcomes

#currentlywatching MEG3N(2022)

#currentlywatching Ghost in the Shell(2017)

Seems solid.

More interesting than the film itself, which despite apparent critical reviews, I felt did a good job of capturing the philosophical/reptilian essence of the original, were the production details of the film. The Shanghai Film Group partly invested in this live action American remake of the Japanese manga, which cast the French actress Juliette Binoche as the Major’s creator. The cosmic joke seems to be China as inheriting the future, and that I plagarised Kenji Siratori in order to learn how to plagarise Deleuze🤪

#currentlywatching Crazy Hong Kong(The Gods Must Be Crazy IV)(1993)

#currentlywatching Twin Peaks: The Return, Lynch(2017)

Now seems like a fitting time to finally get round to watching this. The Lynchian humor is sometimes 🤣

My living idols are getting fewer in number – a sure sign of getting older. RIP

#currentlywatching Crimes of the future, Cronenberg(2022)

What can i say?🤣 I quite liked it. Typically Cronenbergian body horror. His first sci-fi/horror since Existenz(1999). Initial thoughts:.. A continuation and variation of his major themes, with possible parallels to Scanners(1981) and Naked Lunch(1991) especially. The locales were interesting, apparently it was filmed in Greece. Viggo Mortensen brought an elegantly decadent gravitas to the lead character of Saul Tenser. The soundtrack by Howard Shore evokes the idea of extraordinary new possibilities.

#currentlywatching Dune(2024)