Arthur Cooper csc

Arthur Cooper csc Pro

Cinematographer who’s always loved movies.

Favorite films

  • Three Colours: Blue
  • Three Colours: Red
  • The Tree of Life
  • Alien

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  • 40 Acres

    ★★★

  • Sharp Corner

    ★★★

  • The Shrouds

    ★★½

  • Kraven the Hunter

    ★½

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  • 40 Acres

    40 Acres

    ★★★

    Opening conflict was very well done 
    1st petty gripe - at the end of this scene, mom dresses them down for using too many bullets instead of their knives. Then, seconds later, when told to finish off a dying attacker, the son takes aim and shoots her. Huh?
    2nd petty gripe - how they plant their precious corn, sometimes just throwing it, sometimes plant a few with a machete. But why plant at the end of the season when the…

  • The Shrouds

    The Shrouds

    ★★½

    Having lost both of my parents in the last few years, I have a passing acquaintance with grief. While I internalize a lot, it usually comes out through images. A photo that is randomly fed to me by my iphone will send a pang of grief through my heart. I've always felt Cronenberg's vast intellectual capacity renders much of his work cold in the same way the Egoyan's work does. This film meshes with the idea he wrote in Dead Ringers...."I think there should be beauty pageants for people's insides. Best spleen." The ideas are there, but they fail to draw me in emotionally.

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  • The Veil

    The Veil

    ★★½

    Felt like these 6 episodes could have been condensed down to 2 or 3. Thought itself more clever than it was.

  • Trader

    Trader

    ★½

    Should have shorted this.

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