This is a short Cronenberg did as a student, I guess? So … er… I guess I shouldn’t be too critical?

But this is horrendous. Even as student exercises go?

It’s mostly the soundtrack that’s doing me in.

From The Drain. David Cronenberg. 1967. ⚀

I love this architecture. So much concrete. Brutalism!

Gorgeous!

That’s how I want my living room to look like! Except the floors.

Anyway, I remember watching this movie at the Cinematheque in the early 90s/late 80s. And the only thing I remember about it is that the architecture was awesome, but the movie itself sucked.

Which is basically what I’m thinking now, too.

This is the final Cronenberg movie in my (re-)watch of his movies. This is very studentey, of course, but the visuals are very interesting.

This is what I want my next flat to look like!

This building Cronenberg is shooting in is just so gorgeous.

There’s not really much of a movie here, but Cronenberg keeps the interest up just by the visuals.

Stereo (Tile 3B of a CAEE Educational Mosaic). David Cronenberg. 1969. ⚂

Robert Redford!

OK, I’m riveted by this movie, but I’m also remembering that I’ve seen Triple Frontier by the same director, which totally sucked.

But that was a Netflix movie, so perhaps that explains the suckitude.

I was thinking “boy, Redford looks kinda harried here… he’s, like, 55?”

WHAT THE FUCK!!?!?

77!?!? He’s the spryest 77 ever in the history of ever!

Now I’ve flipped from “wow, this movie is awesome” to “this movie is elderly abuse”!

The first half of this movie is absolutely fabulous. All his travails on the boat are so gripping, and Redford’s performance is fantastic.

But then we get the last half of the movie, and it’s just… snoresville? It seems like they wrote themselves into a corner, and didn’t know how to make that part interesting. It’s a shame, because they really had something special there.

So I’d give the first half of the movie a ⚅, and the last half of the movie a ⚁, which means we’re at:

All is Lost. J.C. Chandor. 2013. ⚃