Seen at NYFF60, with introduction by Todd Field, Nina Hoss, and Cate Blanchett. Personal first ever film festival screening.
"Lydia Tár is many things..."
An epic character study from a masterful director and a performer in perfect control of their craft, TÁR, is a film that I think will age like a fine wine even if it doesn't draw audiences out en masse.
How rare it is to get a such a mature and complex film of this nature with…
Sometimes, I feel guilty of not appreciating Spielberg as much as say, Martin Scorsese, but there is no denying that the man is one of the most influential and well known filmmakers in the world for going on 50 years now. And here, he has turned the camera on himself and pulled back the curtain on his own childhood and teenaged years which shaped him and his lifelong passion for cinema; the resulting effect is like a master magician laying…
A good debut feature that has the makings of the greater movies which James Gray would go on to achieve. Tim Roth in prime form (looks hot I mean). Activated my Nathan’s craving too.
A warm, charming, and very Jewish brand of romantic comedy. Absolutely smitten with Amy Irving’s blue eyes. Can see myself revisiting this as a comfort watch in the future.
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Puzzling. That's the word for this film. I'm so perplexed as to how this is the finished cut that was released to the world. For every good thing it does (or at least attempts to do), there is a stupid thing to cancel it out. What results is a scattershot viewing experience and film on the whole.
Affleck is bomb and I think Snyder really would have preferred to make a movie just about Batman, which would explain the shafting…
Gyllenhaal continues his current hot streak of roles in this film as Louis Bloom, a sociopathic up-start stringer who sells his graphic crime scene videos to a local news station. Gyllenhaal is at the same time reprehensible and exhilarating to watch throughout all his character's bug-eyed and cooly delivered monologues.
