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Spectrum Check

Dan Seeger

In an action that somehow felt like an overdue fulfillment of a marital obligation, I devoted a wall of words to extolling the virtues (if that’s the right word) of the willfully trashy, perhaps mildly satirical 1990 horror film Luther the Geek. Doing so meant a fresh viewing of the film, which means that I’ve now see it more often than many films that I truly love and consider great works of art. Of course, I’ve also seen Summer School more often than many films I truly love and consider great works of art so I shouldn’t complain. I also … Continue reading Spectrum Check

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Ephron, Hunt, Kieslowski, Kieslowski, Tykwer

Dan Seeger

Three Colors: Blue (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1993). The first film in Kieslowski’s famed Three Colors trilogy stars Juliette Binoche as a woman dealing with the recent death of her famous husband and young daughter in a car crash. She retreats from the world, getting drawn back only reluctantly, in part due to interest and controversy over her spouse’s last, incomplete work. There’s tremendous thematic heft in the work, with the specter of mortality drawn over the entire work, enhanced by the sense of all the ways in which life itself drifts away from us. Binoche is moving and insightful in her … Continue reading Ephron, Hunt, Kieslowski, Kieslowski, Tykwer