Films I Watched This Week — Aug 11–17, 2025
Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
A sound engineer tortures people to acquire the kind of sounds that he needs for his work in an Italian horror studio. Satanism, death, gore, and screams... audiences immediately are drawn into a morbid auditory vortex, opening up a kind of Pandora's box where nothing is what it seems. Director Peter Strickland seems to be taking great pleasure feasting on many of the cinematic elements that make up sound, most importantly, cinematography, editing, and mise en scène. Berberian Sound Studio is most definitely a lovely tribute to the Italian giallo horror scene of the 70s, but it is much more than that. Much, much, more.
Superman (2025)
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