... you can learn from:
The Lighthouse (2019)
Thomas Wake: O what Protean forms swim up from men's minds, and melt in hot Promethean plunder, scorching eyes, with divine shames and horror... And casting them down to Davy Jones. The others, still blind, yet in it see all the divine graces and to Fiddler's Green sent,where no man is suffered to want or toil,but is... Ancient... Mutable and unchanging as the she who girdles 'round the globe. Them's truth.
A very happy 42nd birthday to writer-director and so-says-me genius Robert Eggers today! As far as I'm concerned, dude is four for four movie-wise -- each of his four feature films were among my favorites of their respective years, or in the case of the movie quoted above my number one favorite movie of its year. They are all so my shit. I cannot get enough. Should I rank them? Okay let's rank them:
4. The Northman (review)
3. Nosferatu (review)
2. The Witch (review)
1. The Lighthouse (review)
Five minutes from now I might change my mind and swap the middle two around, and then five minutes after that I might swap them back. But numbers one and four are set in stone. Which isn't to say I don't adore The Northman -- any movie that ends with Alexander Skarsgård and Claes Bang having a naked swordfight on top of a volcano is about as good as cinema gets if you ask me. So a very happy day to a man who's brought me more pleasure than almost any other working filmmaker. All of these movies have landed in less than a decade y'all! That's wild. Tell me your ranking of his four movies in the comments!
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I've seen The Witch and the Northman. So:
1 - The Witch
2 - The Northman
I'm sorely behind in my Eggers viewing, married to a man who won't watch horror. :)
1 The Witch 2 The Lighthouse 3 Nosferatu 4 The Northman I wish he would stop with the remakes! The Wulfman? A Christmas Carol? Please!! My problem with Nosferatu is that however beautiful and brilliant, it's a story that is too well known. Give me something new and unexpected, not remakes.
I think unfortunately the only way for him to get the budgets he wants in the current system is using familiar titles. I thought he brought enough of his own weirdness to Nosferatu to make it worthwhile - more than worthwhile, I love it. And I 100% want to see what he does with a werewolf movie and the ghosts of A Christmas Carol. I'm less enthusiastic about the possibility of him doing a new Labyrinth movie but just because without Bowie what's the point? (Unless he hires TIlda Swinton in which case I rescind any complaints.) Anyway I think it's just the reality of movie-making today and we've got to make peace with it, as much as I want original stories from him. I think he's creative enough to be original within some confines.
Sigh, you are probably right about the Hollywood system. Also, I just read that Egger's Werfulf is set in 13th century England using the language of that time, (shades of The Witch) so that's encouraging. Also, who doesn't love a really hairy man!?
I loved all but The Lighthouse. That one SUCKED!
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