Ryan Jenq | Skewed perspectives and opinions on film and more
The Fall
When I opened up Tarsem Singh’s The Fall, I had no idea what I was getting into. I had never heard of the film before, nor did I know what it was about, or what actors it had. Looking at the poster, I was expecting some sort of surrealist, fantasy hybrid: what saw surprised and captivated me. [...]
La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher)
I recently viewed the Michael Haneke film La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher). I will make this brief, I don’t know how to explain how much it intrigued me. Caché is the only other Haneke film I had seen. Though I enjoyed it immensely, I was a bit skeptical about highly stylistic lack of energy, which [...]
The Sound of Shutter Island
Am I the only one who thinks Shutter Island contains the most notable use of sound in a contemporary American film? Granted, it is a psychological thriller; there is a degree of surrealism surrounding the sanity of the protagonist: which lends the film opportunities take advantage of vivid imagery, violent flashes, the subtle drop of papers in the air [...]
Fellini Satyricon
I was recommended Federico Fellini’s adaption of the Roman novel Satyricon. I loved what I saw: the vicious and sometimes grotesque art direction, the bold yet shallow colors, and the completely clean yet despondent, hyper-sexualized and a sort of sour presentation of the actors which I cannot describe. The color palette and presentation is entirely reminiscent of ancient Roman [...]
Trouble the Water
You know those YouTube videos where there’s some kid, holding a mini dv cam in one hand, throwin’ up his other and shouting: “YO THIS IS GONNA BE ON YOUTUBE SON DAMN THIS FIGHT IS OFF THE CHAIN THIS IS GONNA BE ON YOUTUBE THIS IS GONNA BE ON YOUTUBE WHOOOOOO!” Now imagine that, only [...]
Where the Wild Things Are
I didn’t have a chance to see Where the Wild Things Are in the cinema, but I managed to snag a copy of the Blu-ray. Since I watch most films on a large computer monitor with a closed laptop nearby, I am sometimes tempted to do other things that would take me out of the [...]
