Sign at the register for Tree of Life An ephemeral pink gaseous cloud. Stars being formed. Fire. Water. Foliage growing. Dinosaurs. On hearing the buzz around Terrence Malick’s latest film, Tree of Life, I feared it would come off like Darren Aronofsky’s The Fountain, which tried to take on huge transhistorical themes, and which . . . → Read More: Tree of Life 
Woody Allen’s new film, Midnight in Paris, is the fanciful tale of a writer, Gil Prender (Owen Wilson) who is about to get married, but falls in love with the city of Paris and contemplates moving there. Every night at midnight, a car picks Gil up and brings him to his favorite era, 1920s . . . → Read More: Midnight in Paris: A review Sally Potter’s Rage is as compelling for its mode of release as for the content. It was released exclusively to mobile phones last week over seven days, and then online and on DVD, as well as in select screenings in the UK. The premise of the movie is that a young man named Michelangelo is . . . → Read More: Rage The event. I had a chance to see a sneak preview of Michael Moore’s new movie Capitalism: A Love Story on Sunday at, of all places, the GM headquarters in Detroit. Moore was there for a Q&A after, as was Mary Kaptur, the democratic congresswoman from Toledo. For some video of the controversy surrounding the . . . → Read More: Capitalism: A Love Story I watched the Watchmen again last night, and I can now make a correction and an observation. First the correction. The shot I mention a couple posts earlier with the blimp moving towards the WTC is in the background of Ozymandias’s office. He is giving a speech that starts: “The conflict with the Soviets is . . . → Read More: Watchmen again After reading all these reviews that complain that the film is too faithful to the original, or that it’s nothing more than a faithful adaptation, with nothing else to offer, I have to reiterate the tagline from the graphic novel: “Who Watches The Watchmen?” Certainly not these critics, to be sure. One of the biggest . . . → Read More: I watched the Watchmen Syriana is an interesting and complex film. I spent most of the first half of the movie going "now who does this guy work for again?" which, I think, is part of the point and the appeal of the film. In the end, it is clear the oil industry and politicians and financial advisors get . . . → Read More: Syriana I just signed up for Peerflix, a service where you can send people movies you don’t watch, and people will send you theirs. It’s like Netflix in a way, in that you have a queue and things get sent to you, but there’s no monthly fee and you get to keep the movies. There’s a . . . → Read More: Peerflix It’s been an Errol Morris kinda day. A thread on Julie’s blog mentions Morris, then a great post on the abstract and the real has nothing do with Morris, but I wanted to mention him in a comment there, which led me to a google search for a particular quote I remembered of his where . . . → Read More: Errol Morris day I finally saw Before Sunset, which I found quite enjoyable. I liked the premise of Before Sunrise, and it managed to hold my attention, even if some of the dialgoue seemed forced. Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy have certainly matured since 1995, becoming more comfortable as actors and with each other, which makes the film . . . → Read More: Richard Linklater |
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