If a cinema screen had eyes, all that it would see during a film’s run is faces staring at it from the shadows, and a bright flickering light above them to guide their gaze towards the dreamy images projected on its otherwise blank surface. Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu opens with a perspective something like this, as…
Six home releases from June 2023 first published by Little White Lies as entry 177 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Includes capsule reviews of: The Lighthouse, Red Sun (Rote Sonne), Revenge (Adauchi), Stephen King on Screen, Lady Reporter, Le Mépris (Contempt) The Lighthouse (2018) “I’m probably a figment of your imagination,” observes Thomas Wake (Willem…
“I’d rather sit in a carriage than a spaceship”: Robert Eggers on the archaising inclinations behind his back-to-basics horror The Witch – first published by Sight & Sound In seventeenth-century New England, the excessive religious fervour of William (Ralph Ineson) leads to his excommunication from a Puritan plantation, along with his wife (Kate Dickie) and children….