Films

Watched The Innocents, the 1961 movie that makes movie critics cream their pants. Yes, it IS good. But like Peeping Tom I couldn't get into it. It was more a cerebral enjoyment rather than getting into the characters/story for me.

Yes that's an interesting conundrum. I felt the same about The Colour of Pomegranates I saw yesterday about an Armenian poet. The film used ' Film as the medium to portray the poets biography in the style of his poems'...

...too right it did, meaning it looked pretty and had some cerebral appeal with its symbolism but lacked narrative coherence, being too arty

I think I have become less tolerant of such movies over time or perhaps films have grown to such a maturity that such filmic experiments now come across as having art-school-like intenseness/tedium