Three reviews in one. John Waters headlines with two revolting satires featuring off-putting characters that you’ll love. The third review, a documentary revolving around the culture and community of World of Warcraft and a persons secret life hidden from his family. … More Three For: Cry-Baby, Serial Mom and The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
John Waters’ worlds have a knack for accepting a person’s eccentricities no matter how severe or deranged. He creates characters that break nearly every societal convention on every conceivable level and yet, in his worldbuilding, it’s generally overlooked as being different or weird. It either blends into the background or is made to be so outrageously front-and-center … More Kathleen Turner diabolical turn in Serial Mom (1994)
The establishing shot has become a mainstay of Tarr’s filmography. A sort of unexpressed realism, where he’s unafraid to show the journey, in its entirety, from one point to the next. He won’t cut away from the scene until the subject has safely reached their desired location. It’s not a reprieve for the audience or the filmmaker, it’s simply letting the action play out as it happened. At times, this type of slow-moving transition has thematic and narrative significance, but other times it’s meant solely to have the audience suffer alongside the character for extended stretches of time. … More The Slow Storytelling of Bela Tarr’s Sátántangó and the nihilistic outlook
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