Films in Review

Saw #NightandFog, in horror class. Features, maybe coincidentally, a number of the standard stylistic conventions of horror films …

… Unsurprisingly, in this context these conventions suddenly come to seem horribly inapt. Fun is fun, but mayhem has costs & consequences.

#NightandFog. Further recommended for how Hanns Eisler’s score illustrates ideas found in his fine 1947 book, Composing for the Films.