When he was not screaming and seducing with movies that “The lighthouse” and his latest work, a resume of FW Murnau’s “Nosferatu,” Film maker Robert Eggers Enjoy the best of moody movie. Chat inside Criterion Wardrobe, Eggers Famous Work with Soviet writer/director Sergei Parajanov, drew his film “The color of pomegranates” from the shelf first.
“Parajanov is a really fascinating filmmaker who really is to recreate folk culture with a lot of details,” Eggers said. “And he makes these beautiful tableaus who is interpretation (s) of the art from the world that he tries to formulate and bring us into. And it is really spectacular. ”
Continued its appreciation for film aesthetics, Eggers continued to take a set of work from Pier Paolo Pasolini and make sure to recognize the efforts of his designers to create the environments he shoots.
Eggers told Criterium: “The worlds that Pasolini creates with Piero Tosi, the costume designer and Dante Ferretti, the production designer, who – Piero Tosi was older, Dante Ferretti was younger and Dante Feretti had this crazy career, but it is fantastic to see what dantee Ferretti does when he has no money and he just has to go to a market and take some rugs and take some baskets and still create this incredible world. “
Discuss Lucino Visconti’s adaptation in 1971 by Thomas Mann’s “Death in Venice”, emphasized Egger’s performance of Dirk Bogarde, an English actor also known for “The Servant” (1963) and “Darling” (1965). Eggers also appreciated the changes in the original source material and how the film’s music helped to accentuate these changes.
“To make the protagonist a composer instead of a writer, just makes it much more cinematic,” he said. “And a funny story – Warner Brothers, when they saw the director’s cut, they were confused and also disappointed. But then one of the studio leaders said: ‘The composer is fantastic. I love this guy. ‘And Visconti said, “Well, it’s Gustav Mahler.” And the studio manager said, “Let’s sign him!” So it’s fun. “
Towards the end of its time inside the criterion’s wardrobe, Eggers made sure to call out the lesser -known work with Monster Master Tod Browning.
“‘Freaks’ is obviously a great classic that many people know, but ‘The Mystic’ and ‘The Unknown’ are movies that people know much less, ”Eggers said. “I actually saw” the unknown “on TV when I was a teenager and it is this amazing, transformative performance by Lon Chany. Of course, it’s transformative, it’s Lon Chany. The special features are also crazy, so … Definitely, definitely check this out if you are a Tod Browning -fan, if you are a universal horror fan, if you are a quiet movie horror fan. It’s damn cool. ”
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