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TIFF '13: MANAKAMANA
Posted Sep 5, 2013 at Film Freak Central
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TIFF '13: Devil's Knot
Posted Sep 2, 2013 at Film Freak Central
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Mike: It's not the sentence that's shared but the fantasy of total surveillance, represented by Smith Sr. having the resources to remotely film whatever coverage of his son the plot requires. (When cameras fail him, Jaden's suit dutifully reports his accelerated heart-rate, so Dad can "see" he's lying.) The point is that a lavishly mounted project has a key concept in common with the low-rent joke script from "Extras." I don't see how it's a non-sequitur to say so if the idea is that Shyamalan talks big but thinks small, just like the "Extras" version of Patrick Stewart.
After Earth (2013)
ZERO STARS/**** starring Will Smith, Jaden Smith, Sophie Okenedo, Zoë Kravitz screenplay by Gary Whitia and M. Night Shyamalan directed by M. Night Shyamalan by Angelo Muredda Give M. Night Shyamalan this much: he is not a timid filmmaker. Where some might have responded to the critical drubb...
Lon -- OK: A haughty bonded schoolteacher in an Australian outback town heads for Sydney but gets waylaid in The Yabba, a Neverland for alcoholic brutes who wrestle, shoot kangaroos, and play Two-Up. Hence the coins.
Wake in Fright (1971)
***½/**** starring Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty, Jack Thompson screenplay by Evan Jones, based on the novel by Kenneth Cook directed by Ted Kotcheff by Angelo Muredda As exploitation-movie titles go, Wake in Fright suggests a high-concept reversal of A Nightmare on Elm Street, ...
@Simon: I liked it. It's...sturdy. And Mikkelsen gives good stern face. Should be a capsule by me in the TIFF archives.
Film Freak Central's Top 10 of 2012
by Walter Chaw I wish To the Wonder had been released this year--Take Shelter, too. The one because I love Terrence Malick and I'm excited that he's working so much, the other because I fear that Take Shelter is the last time Michael Shannon will anchor a picture without being instantly Christ...
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Dec 29, 2012
Josh -- Good points. I suspect you'll be disappointed by how Boal fudges with time such that the CIA feels like an apparatus that's only tangentially affected by the administration. A fleeting glimpse of Obama speaking on torture is one of the only acknowledgments that policy is dictated from anywhere, though my sense of the agents watching the footage in that scene is that what they're hearing is a variation on what they always hear about torture at the start of new administrations. That vagueness about precedent is a weakness I wouldn't defend, but I would say that if the "cause to the effect" as you put it is 9/11, then the effect isn't so much the government doing bad things but licensing itself to do bad things in this instance. Bigelow and Boal opt out of a larger historical portrait, which you could say is irresponsible, or you could say is not their interest; the starting point of the distress calls feels more like the origin point for this tactical response focalized through Maya than, say, America's descent into terrorism. I think the closest thing we get to an admission of pre-9/11 dirty hands is the inference that Maya has been bred by a deeply self-righteous system: the only half-revealing moment from her is when she says "I believe I was spared to finish the job" like a proper zealot.
Zero Dark Thirty (2012) - Combo Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy
***½/**** Image A- Sound A+ Extras C starring Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Ehle, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler screenplay by Mark Boal directed by Kathryn Bigelow click any image to enlarge by Angelo Muredda As of this writing, the latest wannabe tastemaker to thumb his nose at Zero Dark Thirty ...
Bias against poor movies played into this review.
Trouble with the Curve (2012) [Combo Pack] - Blu-ray + DVD + Ultraviolet
*½/**** Image A Sound A Extras D starring Clint Eastwood, Amy Adams, Justin Timberlake, John Goodman screenplay by Randy Brown directed by Robert Lorenz by Angelo Muredda Trouble with the Curve is an unfortunate title for a film beset with problems on every side. Helmed by longtime Clint Ea...
Can't speak to Fun, who I have only heard in commercials, but 9 Songs would have been more to my taste if it was a better movie. And your defense of BRMC and Elbow is more impassioned than the half-assed way both are used as sonic background to gauzy hipster dates, no?
TIFF '12: Everyday
**½/**** directed by Michael Winterbottom by Angelo Muredda Michael Winterbottom makes projects more than he makes films, and happy are the rare few that bridge the gap. Everyday comes close at times, with no thanks to the unnecessarily tricked-out structure, which picks up with a young Britis...
TIFF '12: Ship of Theseus
Posted Sep 7, 2012 at Film Freak Central
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