For W's new series, W Movie Club, our editors reveal their go-to movie picks.
while in quarantine. This week, digital designer Tilden Bissell lists her go-to's—a colorful mix of fantasy films that evoke other worlds. Lately, my criteria for good quarantine fare has called for something a little stranger: warriors and forest gods, an alien missing his home, hobbits in Middle Earth, a “bio-exorcist," plus one really great love story for good measure.
As long as it doesn't remind me of my apartment, I'm in. Most of these films definitely prioritize style but still hold plenty of substance when you look a little deeper. Frodo and Sam, Su and Chow, the Maitlands and Lydia, each film reflects the bonds we make outside of family—or in’s case, species. But they're also just five visually striking films that will make you feel like you’re anywhere but here.to its most basic plot, it’s about struggling to cohabitate with obnoxious roommates when you can’t leave your house—which, hey, relatable. Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis play members of the recently deceased Maitland family who enlist the help of a rogue poltergeist to force the Deetz family, the house's new inhabitants, from their former home. The set and makeup design is excellent, with the latter winning an Academy Award, not to mention the countless goth mood boards inspired by Winona Ryder’s turn as Lydia Deetz. People tend to give Lydia all of the sartorial credit for this film, but it’s Catherine O’Hara’s Delia Deetz, a flawless caricature of a yuppie New Yorker, who walked so that future fashionistas like Moira Rose could run.is the best example of the complexity of Hayao Miyazaki’s world-building.follows a young warrior who is banished from his village after falling victim to a curse; while trying to break it, he wanders headfirst into a conflict between the humans in a local village, Irontown, and the animal spirits of the surrounding forest. Like many Miyazaki movies, the film has a strong environmentalist bent, but it doesn’t pass judgement on any characters as “good” or “bad” in the way you might typically expect from a children’s film. The English-dub voice cast is a who’s-who of late ’90s heartthrobs: Billy Crudup and Claire Danes voice star-crossed lovers Ashitaka and San, but it’s the lush, detailed animation that keeps me coming back for more.lacks in a coherent plot, it makes up for in trippy visuals. Infamously strung out throughout the entire production, David Bowie is perfectly cast in his dramatic debut as an alien sent to find water for his dying planet, only to be sidelined by the vices here on Earth. The visuals are a breath of fresh air compared to neo-noir and retrofuturist films like—also great sci-fi movies in their own right—from the ‘80s, showing that in this genre, sometimes less can be more.
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