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Oppenheimer 2023
This is an abridged version of an essay I wrote about this film:
Christopher Nolan occupies a rarified space in the entertainment industry, he is a film director with multiple critical and commercial successes. This makes Nolan a well-respected figure in Hollywood and film production studios give him allowance to make personal films on a massive scale. This is an unusual privilege in a cinema-industry built on comic book franchises. Nolan yields a great deal of power in the media…Translated from by
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Old 2021
Writer/Director M. Night Shyamalan has crafted a bold, auteurist vision in Old. His carefully directed cinematography in the skilled hands of Mike Gioulakis is not only technologically impressive but also a distinctive creative tool to communicate theme (the camera spinning from character to character like the hand of a clock), to obfuscate or reveal important narrative details (the kids faces out of focus or off-frame until their rapid aging is witnessed by their parents, tight close-ups revealing wrinkles) and clever…
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Gemini Man 2019
Imagine if we saw these techniques being employed in some superhero films, or at least this level of creativity and originality.
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