Thursday, March 05, 2020

Good Morning, World

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I feel as if I am going to have a lot to say about this movie at a point in the future when I've had more time to think about it, but last night I was introduced to the 1995 film The Passion of Darkly Noon from the director Philip Ridley (who also directed 1990's terrific and also singularly strange The Reflecting Skin, a movie I have had words about here on the site before and which also got a nice blu-ray release recently) and starring Brendan Fraser, Ashley Judd, and Viggo Mortensen... oh and also Grace Zabriskie! We can't...
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... forget her. Anyway I was introduced to Darkly Noon (lol that is Brendan's character's name, because of course it is) thanks to the brand new 2K restored blu-ray that Arrow Films is putting out at the end of this month, and I can't imagine this movie ever looked this vivid and crisp and frankly (I say this as a compliment) psychotic as it does on this disc in the 25 years it's been available...

... so I recommend, if you're curious or if you've been struck by the Darkly Noon bat to the face before, well I recommend you pick up a copy. And maybe then, when it comes out, I'll have gathered my thoughts. For now let's just enjoy the simple pleasures of watching 1995 Brendan Fraser climb naked out of a bed after the jump...


1 comment:

Louise said...

This film had been on my to-see list for DECADES until a few years ago when I discovered that my local library had a copy on DVD. I lovvved it! Looks like an SD version is streaming on Prime, but I'm beyond excited to see the Blu-ray!