The great Austrian filmmaker spoke with us about his early experiences falling
in love with cinema and the films that have shaped his singular aesthetic.
And for people like Scorsese and Spielberg, who first fell in
love with cinema as children — well, it was those movies, for them.
In an era when moviegoers are increasingly content to view films in multiplexes or on their computers or smartphones, this is a rare chance to see a collection of epic visions in the most sensorially overwhelming manner possible — the kind of cinematic experience that can make someone fall in
love with the cinema all over again.
Greg, an awkward high school senior who interacts in the safety of his empty social cocoon, then befriends a girl with leukemia, closely resembles attributes I see in myself: awkwardness, unattractiveness, complete ineptitude in interactions with girls but also a head -
over-heels love with cinema.
Glorious in black and white and poignant as hell, it's one of those films that reminds you why you fell
in love with cinema in the first place.
«The movie is in love with love and in
love with cinema,» Del Toro says of the decisions he made for «The Shape of Water.»
Ultimately, he said earlier today, the mix of fantasy, romance, thriller and old - style Hollywood is a movie that's «in love with love and in
love with cinema.»
While at the Toronto International Film Festival for the North American premiere of Happy End, which opens this week in New York, Haneke sat down with me to talk about his early experiences falling in
love with cinema and the films that have shaped his singular aesthetic.
Carpenter's Halloween made me fall in
love with cinema.