LABYRINTHS (DO READ THE WRITE-UP!)

ENTRANCE.

This list is of films with mazes or labyrinthine structures, or maybe just series of tunnels, corridors, alleyways etc. Orson Welles and in particular the late Raul Ruiz had a penchant for labyrinthine narratives and/or themes, Terry Gilliam for complex tubes and piping too- and in Brazil, a bureaucratic, a physical as well as a mental maze. Stanley Kubrick, influenced by the gliding camera of Max Ophuls, liked tracking shots- along trenches in Paths of Glory, then with steadicam along corridors in The Shining with its dominant maze theme and the sense that Nicholson’s character has been there before. With the...