Reinventing the Remake in Your Own (Re)Image
How Alexandre Aja and Fede Alvarez Reclaimed Two Horror Classics
By Bill Gibron. It is, perhaps, the most hated word among film fans. The punchline to this proposed cinematic joke always leaves some beloved title stranded and suffering, relegated to the need for revisiting without any significant proof, save a studio’s bottom line, to suggest same. Indeed, the “remake” reference always sounds like a critique, […]
Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color
Defying dream logic with a carefully crafted puzzle box screenplay
by Bill Gibron At first, the images appear random. Bags of garbage being taken to a dumpster. Two boys on bicycles wandering by. A man drives his car to a local nursery and looks over the available inventory. He comes across a leaf which gives off a particular blue powder. Digging into the dirt, the […]
