Colour Me Kubrick (2006)

Color or Colour, a slight little difference, where one can hear glamour, finesse, pure entertainment or just a parody of it all. But without thinking exactly what a parody is or could be, let us just say that the film gives us (or at least me) the strange feeling of watching what could have been a proper Kubrick film, or at least the intense impulse to go and re-watch them all. Parody perhaps as a repetition of the repetition itself that Kubrick's films are in our own personal soundtrack, playing as we daily are, as we become, or as we just stop for a second to listen, to sense how a long or a medium shot is developing smoothly from or towards are own faces. Hilariously cruel? Perhaps just an ego looking at itself, in a last shot, as the credits start rolling and the tune engraves itself again in our own personal sound track.

3 stars

Wait until Dark (1967)

The theatricality of it makes it worth it. With the peculiar uncanniness of certain films of the 60's-70's, it demands an easy belief into the danger behind blurry lighting, closed spaces, an impromptu piano or a violin jump. Perhaps what is most spooky is the chance of so much acting in a real environment or of so much reality in a theatre—and by reality I do not pretend to concern myself with any realism or Lacanian universe—here we have rather the “easy” reality of suspense: knowing perfectly what will happen and yet immersed in an hour and a half pause of sincerity. To my taste perhaps the best part of the film are the first sequences—the stuffing of the doll, the airport, immigration, and the abduction while leaving the building. And I will confess, Audrey Hepburn's blind woman gives a sweet & sour perverse enjoyment to it. Finally, a diving into space worth your time.

3 stars