Suspiria (spoilers)
2011 03 22
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Until tonight, I'd never seen Suspiria all the way through. I've always been interrupted. it's been a long time since the last attempt. So long, in fact, that I completely forgot about the maggots. The squirming, teeming pile of maggots falling out of the ceiling and into people's hair.
And after spending some time on the phone with a friend this evening discussing the gargantuan arachnids that had invaded her home, and the centipede that violated her back porch, the maggots really were a bit too much. Blech!
Now that I've finally seen to the end of the film, and will no doubt be up half the night paranoiding the feeling of maggots crawling in my hair (having had a cockroach crawl over my foot once, gives me more than ample fodder with which to do this)…
Argento certainly does dig the red, I must say. And I need to get me one of those peacock lamps.
I saw something somewhere about Natalie Portman starring in a remake of this film. I'm wondering if crazy ballerina films are going to become her stock in trade now. Yes, I've seen Black Swan. No, I was not impressed (with the film. She did all right in it).
I am grateful that Aronofsky still uses film to film on, rather than video. It gives things that extra note of depth, graininess, warmth or cold. it's part of why I love old Bond films so much. Things filmed on film have such better feeling to them. it's just so damned expensive. I think it's something like 100k CAD for about 10 minutes of film, and the cameras are something like 90 thousand apiece. This does not include the costs of processing, but I believe a great deal of that can be done digitally.