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Branagh deftly plays with the intersection of art, cinema and the theater. He opens the movie with our narrator, Derck Jacobi, playing the role of the chorus. He lights a match and by doing so invokes the predominant motif of fire, which flickers throughout the darkness of the film. In his shady-looking black trenchcoat, he them saunters across the set of the movie, surrounded by cameras, sets and lights--all the contraptions of film-making. We are clearly made accomplices to the fact that this is a constructed story. Rather than allow us to be lulled by the illusions...
...explores the effect of the 1931 "Frankenstein" on a young girl in Franco's Spain during World War II. As the girl becomes deeply involved in a fantasy of the Karloff film, the world surrounding her begins eerily to echo the film. It often resembles a dark version of "Cinema Paradiso," stressing the importance of the child's imagination in creating her personal world. The 1977 new wave classic Eraserhead subjects a version of Shelley's myth to the vision of its own demented genius--none other than David Lynch. The film is an hallucinatory ride through the disturbingly strange...
...impossible to explore all the themes in Frankenstein which have inspired film makers since the earliest cinema. The 1931 version uses a tuxedoed emecee to explain to the audience that the story is about two of the universe's "greatest mysteries": life and death. Lynch draws more inspiration from the idea of unnatural parentage and child-rearing; whiie Victor Erice's "Spirit of the Beehive" focuses on the story's horror and its effect on the audience...
...film, to see what the text actually says. Its power, however, lies in that very ability to inspire the imagination which makes cinematic interpretations so problematic. There is so much human passion in Shelley's work that it does keep us up at night, whether in a darkened cinema or with a reading lamp. The story strikes at the most primative myths and fears of humankind, upsetting the assumtpions of natural laws so completely that it never fails to "curdle the blood...
...Cinema: Costner shines in the Gumpish drama...