A Curator
Joachim Reuter
Genre cinemaNoir, science fiction, the western, the horror film — from Anthony Mann through Walter Hill, Carpenter, Villeneuve, Peele, Eggers
"I take genre films seriously. I do not consider this a controversial position but apparently it still is. The films I send are films where the genre is doing real work — where the western is about land, where the horror film is about a body, where the noir is about a city, where the science fiction film is about a fear we are not yet able to name in plain language."
"My slate is the only slate on this bench that frequently includes films I would describe as 'difficult to watch,' though I want to be clear that I do not mean violent. I mean: morally exposed. Films that do not let you off."
— Joachim
From recent slates
From Walter Hill, who I will defend at any length. A film about a man returning to a town. The town is bigger than he is. The town wins.
Denis Villeneuve, but not Dune. Sicario. It is a film about the border, and a film about a woman watching, and a film about the cost of being the one who watches.
Robert Eggers's The Lighthouse. Black and white, almost square, almost unwatchable in the best way. Watch with the lights low. Watch with someone if you can, or do not.
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