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Steve Jobs 2015
Film Review: STEVE JOBS
Read my reviews on Flicks at:
www.flicks.co.nz/member/adamatdramatrain/I’m a sucker for Aaron Sorkin’s writing, from the rat-a-tat pace, blistering (if sometimes middle-class, middle-aged, myisoginist) intelligence, liberal fantasy politics, and cracking humour, of The West Wing to his screenplays for A Few Good Men, The Social Network and Moneyball. Here Sorkin takes Walter Isaacson’s biography and reinvents Jobs’ life as a series of vignettes. The acting is top notch, especially from Kate Winslet, (all but unrecognisable as…
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The Danish Girl 2015
Film Review: THE DANISH GIRL
Read my reviews on FLICKS at:
www.flicks.co.nz/member/adamatdramatrain/Based ever so loosely on the true story of the first sex change, “The Danish Girl” is a sumptuously mounted, beautifully designed, wonderfully acted, achingly arty tale from Tom Hooper, director of "The King's Speech" and "Les Misérables".
As the artist, Einar Wegener, Eddie Redmayne (an Oscar-winner for his performance as Stephen Hawking in "The Theory of Everything"), emotes pain and confusion, hidden behind a bright, wide smile.…
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The Sea 2013
Film Review: THE SEA
Read my review on FLICKS at:
www.flicks.co.nz/blog/reviews/review-the-sea-is-admirable-rather-than-enjoyable/If slow-moving, arty-farty films reflecting on the human condition have you hurling obscenities at the screen, look away now because The Sea is all that and more.
Max (a masterfully subtle portrayal by Ciarán Hinds), is an art historian who, following the death of his wife (a superb and deeply moving Sinéad Cusack), returns to the Irish coastal resort where he spent his childhood. Adapted from his novel by…
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Black Souls 2014
New Zealand International Film Festival mini-review: BLACK SOULS (Anime nere)
Francesco Munzi, delivers a gritty, reality based, Italian mafia movie. The tale of three brothers running the “family business”, following the murder of their father by a rival family, it delivers on its promise of high tension, well-wrought tragedy, and top-notch performances.
If, like me, you loved Matteo Garrone’s superb slice-of-life modern mobster drama, Gomorrah, this is an offer you can’t refuse. Capisce?
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