Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a pretty good episode of Star Trek, but buried under over an hour of extra garbage. The problem is that it's supposed to be a movie, but it never quite lands that cinematic feeling.
The biggest problem is the pacing. This script feels like it was first written as an hour long TV show episode and then stretched out. It takes forty-five minutes for the plot to start, nearly all of the first half…
Man With a Movie Camera is one of the most intensely ideological films ever created.
Obviously form is everything for this film. It is creating a new language for the medium of film. I like that it shows everything twice. We see it and then we see how we see it. The creation of film is mingled with the subject of film until the two are identical. I love the scenes of editing the movie to make the images come…
Conclave meets the Catholic Church on its own ground, phenomenology and embodied religion, and asks it to recognize the implication of it's own philosophy.
I love almost every visual choice made in this movie. The cinematography is excellent, in a few scenes breathtaking. The costuming sticks to the uniforms of the Catholic Church, but the choice of which to wear in each scene is excellent. The sets are beautiful and very realistic. For a moment it felt like they were…
Hugo is exactly what a children's movie should be.
Martin Scorsese knows exactly what he's doing. It's a beautiful film! The colors really pop, especially Hugo's eyes. The sets and costuming is perfect. It all looks authentic, but with a touch of wonder. There are a lot of great shots, especially the ones through the clockwork in the station. The writing is good, all the characters are pretty believable from the perspective of a child watching the movie. The little…
