Ryan Jenq | Skewed perspectives and opinions on film and more
Cinema
You walk around, you’re all in a big fucking rush and your eyes move here and there. You look. You look at the door, at your toothbrush. You look at yourself in the mirror in the morning after you get out of bed, stretching your arms out and getting the crust out of your eyes [...]
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. [...]
Orson Welles and the Poetic Solution
In case I found myself in a position where there would be a lack of updates during a prolonged period of time, I hatched a backup plan. I will copy and paste one of a few academic papers relating to film. The following was an assignment regarding an Orson Welles quote for a “film language” course. There [...]
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 [...]
I don’t like Hitchcock
There is nothing wrong with him or his work. I just don’t like Alfred Hitchcock. Every time I have alluded to my distaste, I have been barraged with comments questioning my status as a filmmaker and my appreciation of cinema, simply due to Hitchcock’s prominence in film history. I understand that he is one of [...]
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 [...]
