Directed by Robert Altman I had to turn on the subtitles for Gosford Park. Robert Altman loves to show you a roomful of people talking right over each other. It feels realistic, documentary-like and with all the sharp, royal accents here I had trouble picking up individual lines. But that's part of the point. It's usually … Continue reading Gosford Park (2001)
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Altered States (1980)
Directed by Ken Russell Altered States will remind you of other 80's movies like The Fly and An American Werewolf in London. It's one of those stories that builds to a particularly gruesome, practical effects-laden transformation which marks the protagonist's irreversible shift from an everyman into something monstrous. William Hurt plays Eddie Jessup, a scientist obsessed with finding … Continue reading Altered States (1980)
