Directed by Jean-Luc Godard Alphaville imagines a grim future dominated by detrimental logic and a computer system with a voice that sounds as though it's been yanked from the death rattle of a long-time smoker. Combine that with the loud beeps, flashing lights and all around lack of personality of noir hero Lemmy Caution (Eddie … Continue reading Alphaville (1965)
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Cemetery of Splendor (2015)
Directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul All of time unfolds at once in Cemetery of Splendor, or at least you get that impression. The story follows Jen, a volunteer nurse in a displaced hospital, now located in what was once a childhood classroom of hers. The space is temporary, with construction well underway just outside the window, soon … Continue reading Cemetery of Splendor (2015)