Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Existenz and Color Me Kubrick

No time to respond in depth, but I need to keep track of good films.

Existenz, with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law, Ian Holm, and Willem Dafoe, Dir. David Cronenberg. I liked this one much better than The Matrix. The relationship between physical reality and cyber reality is much more complicated. The central characters are implicated in violence to humans, with no clear lines between good and evil. Very complex, very subtle.

Color Me Kubrick was great fun, with smart references to Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, and other Kubrick films. John Malkovich was wonderful as Alan Conway, the man who passed himself off as Kubrick in London for several years. Dir. Brian Cook.