Insomnia (1997)
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02/15/22 • 146 min
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This February at Catching Up On Cinema is “NOT Made in America” month!
All month long we'll be reviewing foreign films that have garnered American remakes.
This week, Kyle and Trevor review Erik Skjoldbjærg's, Insomnia (1997)!
A Norwegian noir from the Criterion collection, as well as director Skjoldbjærg's feature debut, the film is a beautifully constructed and entrancing experience.
Remade for American/English speaking audiences by famed director Christopher Nolan in 2002, both versions of the film have their individual merits, however the Norwegian original proves to be the more layered and thought provoking experience.
Borderline daring in it's execution and presentation, the film is masterfully constructed in a variety of subtle ways that are deeply rewarding to particularly attentive viewers.
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This February at Catching Up On Cinema is “NOT Made in America” month!
All month long we'll be reviewing foreign films that have garnered American remakes.
This week, Kyle and Trevor review Erik Skjoldbjærg's, Insomnia (1997)!
A Norwegian noir from the Criterion collection, as well as director Skjoldbjærg's feature debut, the film is a beautifully constructed and entrancing experience.
Remade for American/English speaking audiences by famed director Christopher Nolan in 2002, both versions of the film have their individual merits, however the Norwegian original proves to be the more layered and thought provoking experience.
Borderline daring in it's execution and presentation, the film is masterfully constructed in a variety of subtle ways that are deeply rewarding to particularly attentive viewers.
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District B13 (2004)
This February at Catching Up On Cinema is “NOT Made in America” month!
All month long we'll be reviewing foreign films that have garnered American remakes.
This week, Trevor forces Kyle to join him in reviewing Pierre Morel's, District B13 (2004)!
The feature directorial debut of Luc Besson protege Morel, this French import is notable for serving as one of the earliest and most prominent showcases of parkour in mainstream film.
Starring one of the founders of the art form, David Belle, as well as fellow as traceur and stunt maestro Cyril Raffaelli, the film is lean, fast paced, and occasionally breathtaking in instances where the dialogue takes a backseat to acrobatics and techno music.
While far from perfect, and difficult to recommend to all but the most ardent of action movie fans, the film is nevertheless memorable as an important bullet point in the history and progression of trends mid-2000's action cinema.
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Pulse (2001)
1 RecommendationsThis February at Catching Up On Cinema is “NOT Made in America” month!
All month long we'll be reviewing foreign films that have garnered American remakes.
This week, Kyle and Trevor review Kiyoshi Kurosawa's, Pulse (2001)!
Released during the popular wave of J-Horror films in the early 2000's, the film is bold and quietly unsettling examination of the horrors of loneliness amid technological innovation and increasingly alienating social trends.
Beautifully shot, and edited with a steady hand, the film is short on shocks and thrills, but boasts an oppressive atmosphere that can get under ones' skin when approached with the correct mindset.
While the film's concepts are genuinely chilling, they are also unfortunately it's weakest point, as they are largely ill-defined, and not especially well executed over the course of it's slightly too long runtime.
Remade in America in 2006, (from a screenplay co-written by Wes Craven) the Western version of the film is well shot and far more explicit in it's approach to delivering scares, however it too is perhaps best remembered as little more than a mediocre J Horror film.
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