Where to begin with this one. Just watch it, don’t read anything else about it or watch the trailer. It’s an exceptional film best experienced blind. All you need to know is that it is a tense social drama mystery.
About Elly is a prime example of how good international films can elevate a dialogue-heavy, simple setting into something much deeper and meaningful.
Now, my thoughts (minor thematic spoilers, no major spoilers):
The cinematography feels subtle and organic, and sets…
Surprising fact: Selma is one of the only drama biopics of Martin Luther King Jr.
Other movies and series you'll find about him are documentaries. Perhaps it's better that way though.
While Selma is admirable in it's attempt to humanize and and portray King in everything from intimate home life to his biggest civil rights moments, it feels like the filmmaking drags behind in quality to do justice for such a titanic moment in US history.
Some quibbles: the cinematic…
I watched it for the first time and totally loved it. Maybe I liked it because I was constantly identifying the revolutionary ideas that so many films now pay homage to. This one really is the great-grandfather of all space sci-fi epics.
The visual effects hold up stunningly well; they look better to me than Star Wars ... fight me (Jk I love Star Wars too). Every shot is absolutely iconic. The slow pace of "nothing but the silence of…
No Country for Old Men is a new frontier for the western. It's not only disillusioned with riding away into the sunset, it doesn't even believe in its forefathers' traditions.
A funny, lovable, good-willed hero? Nowhere in sight.
A one-dimensional bad guy and his posse? Absent.
A memorable melodic soundtrack? There isn't even any music at all.
It has far more in common with a bleak crime thriller than a wild west flick. What's on display here is something so…
