It’s hard for me to remember a film with as divergent a critical response as Synecdoche, New York which made many reviewers best and worst films of 2008 lists at the end of the year. I can sympathize with those who didn’t enjoy the film – to its credit it never even tries to meet [...]
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Movies I’ve Seen: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Like it’s title, The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford can feel like too much on the plate, let alone the movie theater marquee. Truth be told, on my first attempt to watch it the sonorous narration, beautiful photography and leisurely pacing conspired to lull me into a sound sleep. Not a [...]
Movies I’ve Seen: The Incredible Hulk
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Marvel Comics has a habit of adding nifty adjectives to it’s characters names – The Amazing Spider-Man, The Incredible Hulk, the…uh, Fantastic Four. So it should be noted that the movie The Incredible Hulk isn’t necessarily bragging about it’s own quality relative to Ang Lee’s still warm Hulk. It is the better film though, despite [...]
Movies I’ve Seen: In Bruges
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
In Bruges finds its central metaphor in a Hieronymus Bosch vision of purgatory, a crazy mishmash that’s beautiful, disturbing, funny, and ultimately a way station to the next plane of existence for those depicted. As is Bruges itself in the skewed vision of writer/director Martin McDonough, reteaming Brendan Gleeson, star of his first feature Six [...]
Movies : Superman II – The Richard Donner Cut
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Watching the Richard Donner version of Superman II, a film long credited to director Richard Lester who took over partway through filming, is to step into another era of film making. The effects are transparently cheesy in many places and there are logic lapses that are big enough to drive an ocean liner through.
People are [...]