Gertrud. Carl Theodor Dreyer. 1964. ⚅ Oh, wow -- a Dreyer movie from 1964? I had no idea he lived that long. Hm... Ah. It's his final movie. I've seen the fabulous Joan of Arc he did back in the 20s, but not a lot of his later movies. This…
This is amazing and utterly riveting. All those close-ups and the rapid editing... I had no idea that this was going on in the 20s. I watched the completely silent "newly discovered" complete version, so I had to supply my own soundtrack. I chose the Hellraiser Themes by Coil. The…
The Mirror. Andrei Tarkovski. 1975. ⚅ I watched this film when doing the one-movie-from-each-country blog thing. It's really good, but I think Stalker is better, really. And perhaps Solaris, too? But I can kinda see why that one isn't on this OTB list... I think... Anyway! This one is really…