VICTORIA

Directed by Sebastian Schipper
Cinematography Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
Performances by Laia Costa, Frederick Lau,
Music composed by Nils Frahm



"The script was without dialogue, like a 20-page treatment. We knew the action but didn't necessarily know how the dialogue was going to develop. We split the film into ten parts, and rehearsed each part separately. This was in some ways script and character development. It was a great possibility for me to see what works and what doesn't. The actors were more or less free to do as they pleased. I didn't plan any specific camera moves, although I had ideas about how to get in and out of the car for the driving scene, and because I had rehearsed it my body kind of knew what to do. [...]

The camera is a fly on a wall, and an extra character. [...] The real-time aspect of it does something to the perception of the movie. You don't feel manipulated. It was important to me that it had poetry, and had a style. It wasn't just trying to catch the dialogue, but also trying to catch poetic moments. We did light the film and try to work with colours. But it doesn't feel like something that is put on top of it, it's something integrated."

- Sturla Brandth Grøvlen, Cinematographer
(source: Canon 2015, interviewed by CPN writer James Morris)

TRUE DETECTIVE - Season 1

Written by Nic Pizolatto / Directed by Cary Fukunaga
Performances by Matthew McConaughey as Rust Cohle, Woody Harrelson as Martin Hart, Michelle Monaghan as Maggie Hart
Cinematography by Adam Arkapaw





"Just gotta look a man in his eyes. It's all there. Everybody wears their hunger and their haunt... Just gotta be honest about what can go on up here. The locked room." - Rust Cohle

The VVITCH

Written & Directed by Robert Eggers
Performances by Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger, and Lucas Dawson

Horror

"I’ve seen horrors, horrors that you’ve seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that, but you have no right to judge me. It’s impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. ....Horror. Horror has a face...And you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces...Seems a thousand centuries ago...We went into a camp to innoculate the children. We left the camp after we had innoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every innoculated arm. There they were in a pile...A pile of little arms. And I remember...I...I...I cried...I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized...like I was shot...Like I was shot with a diamond...a diamond bullet right through my forehead...And I thought: My God...the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters...These were men...trained cadres...these men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love...but they had the strength...the strength...to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral...and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordal instincts to kill without feeling...without passion...without judgement...without judgement. Because it's judgement that defeats us."

- Marlon Brando, in Apocalypse Now
Written by John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola, Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Adapted from Joseph Conrad's novel "Heart of Darkness"

It Follows

Directed by David Robert Mitchell

"But here I should imagine the most terrible part of the whole punishment is, not the bodily pain at all -but the certain knowledge that in an hour - then in ten minutes, then in half a minute, then now -this very instant- your soul must quit your body and that you will no longer be a man -and that this is certain" - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot