Director John Ford was famous for tearing away pages of dialogue from scripts, he preferred the photography to do as much of the storytelling as possible. While he certainly wasn’t editing Steinbeck, Ford’s choices here were pivotal to bringing the novel to life which, at the time, was seen as a basically impossible task given the impact of the novel and the fact the movie came out less than a year later.
Ford’s approach was often almost documentary-like. There was…
Two cousins, Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin, head to Poland after their grandmother passes away in order to understand her life a bit better.
Jesse Eisenberg wrote and directed A Real Pain, and the writing and directing are the two strengths of the movie. In short, if you’re a fan of Jesse Eisenberg’s act - fast talking, quick wit, nerdy confusion, misplaced smugness - then this movie will work for you, and I happen to be a huge fan of…
Points for style and for it being an absolutely one-off unique thing, but I think this one falls in to the same category Tar was in, which is, I heard too much about how the movie was a celebrated masterpiece so I went in ready to get my hair blown back and it just didn’t happen.
This is less a horror movie and more like Tarkovsky on Pop Rocks, or perhaps a high school sophomore who was, just this moment, introduced to PowerPoint animations.
Or maybe it just went over my head.
