Spencer Hall

Spencer Hall

Animator
Dreammaker
Breadbaker
Heartbreaker

Favorite films

  • Repo Man
  • The External World
  • As Time Goes By
  • The Night of the Hunter

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  • Ladies First

    ½

  • Don't Look Now

    ★★★★

  • The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

    ★★★★

  • Apex

    ★½

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Don't Look Now
★★★★ Watched

A masterclass in editing. I'll be revisited this with a fine tooth comb.

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The Cranes Are Flying
★★★★½ Watched

Movies don't get much better than this.

Harrowing, beautiful, weird, a friend described it as psychedelic.

Thrilled to see at The Embassy at Wellington Film Society where I sat beside an amateur cryptic crossword maker who I later ended up collaborating with on a Wellington music themed crossword.

Wuthering Heights
★½ Watched

The rattling fan in the ceiling of the cinema was slightly less annoying than a good deal of this toothless adaptation.

The pantomime silliness of the art direction was fun though, especially when it was bafflingly at odds with the confused tone of the scenes like
- grotesque veins in the wallpaper in Kathy's chambers
- an absurd pile of bottles in the room where Mr Earnshaw has died
- a hearth made of cast hands for no clear reason…