Hooptober 12: 26/31

A big plus when watching old movies is the status they have among the canon and the influence they have been on the filmmakers you grew up with. I see a lot in The Phantom Carriage that I love and know about cinema — the ghostly apparitions, the macabre mood, the moralism — but it came here first. It’s like being mentored by the mentor of your mentor. I watched the edition with the KTL score, whose drone and noise and ambiance amplified its spectral qualities, almost as if the film is a ghost itself, phasing through the screen from a weird undead reality from over a hundred years ago.