"It's hard for people our age to think about dying. Perhaps we should have got into the habit when we were young."
A dissolve from the dial of an old-fashioned clock to the dial of an old-fashioned telephone.
When Val Lewton was preparing Isle of the Dead, one of his grimmest and most poetic horror films, an Rko executive reminded him that the studio had decided that its films should not have messages. "I'm sorry to say that your film does have a message," Lewton said, "and the message is, 'Death is Good.'"
In this light, Jack Clayton's final film, Memento Mori, can be seen as an exercise in redundancy, since it helpfully includes it's message in the title, for anyone with the classical background to understand it. But of course a message is not, or should not, be the whole point of a movie. Those much derided...
A dissolve from the dial of an old-fashioned clock to the dial of an old-fashioned telephone.
When Val Lewton was preparing Isle of the Dead, one of his grimmest and most poetic horror films, an Rko executive reminded him that the studio had decided that its films should not have messages. "I'm sorry to say that your film does have a message," Lewton said, "and the message is, 'Death is Good.'"
In this light, Jack Clayton's final film, Memento Mori, can be seen as an exercise in redundancy, since it helpfully includes it's message in the title, for anyone with the classical background to understand it. But of course a message is not, or should not, be the whole point of a movie. Those much derided...
- 4/8/2010
- MUBI
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