It has become instantly one of my favorite films, right up there with A Canterbury Tale and The Seventh Seal; I can imagine watching it again and again and I might never discover all its secrets. What I don't understand is why it seems to be so obscure. nineweaving has recommended it to me, rushthatspeaks screened it for me yesterday: otherwise it was basically off my radar, even though I loved The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) when I saw it at the Brattle last year and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover (1989) is up next. The Coolidge Corner Theatre should be showing this as regularly as Lawrence of Arabia. It's just an astonishing piece of art.
*ears perk up* Oh?
It's one of the twenty-four books: A Book of Water, A Book of Mythologies, An Atlas Belonging to Orpheus, An Alphabetical Inventory of the Dead, The Ninety-Two Conceits of the Minotaur, A Book of Motion, The Autobiographies of Semiramis and Pasiphaë . . . Look, just find a VHS. You need to see this film.
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It has become instantly one of my favorite films, right up there with A Canterbury Tale and The Seventh Seal; I can imagine watching it again and again and I might never discover all its secrets. What I don't understand is why it seems to be so obscure.
*ears perk up* Oh?
It's one of the twenty-four books: A Book of Water, A Book of Mythologies, An Atlas Belonging to Orpheus, An Alphabetical Inventory of the Dead, The Ninety-Two Conceits of the Minotaur, A Book of Motion, The Autobiographies of Semiramis and Pasiphaë . . . Look, just find a VHS. You need to see this film.