In viewing this, it's obvious why the Israeli government has tried to suppress this film. No Other Land is a damning portrait of abuses by the Israeli Defense Forces, the type of film that can actually move the needle on public perception. I fully believe that events surrounding this film's distribution would have played out the same way even had the attacks by Hamas in October 2023 not happened.
No Other Land draws from the direct cinema style of Jean…
The film that kick-started the Disney Renaissance, and the best film to come from it, largely because it feels like a film Walt would have made. It's wondrous and romantic in the spirit of the best Disney productions, with several standout musical moments and memorable characterization.
The Little Mermaid also points the way for what would become all of the bad things about modern Disney productions as well. The "Under the Sea" sequence foreshadows how subsequent Disney productions would make…
Lloyd Kaufman's most ambitious film also captures a mood we've rarely seen from him - reflective. Shakespeare's Shitstorm, in addition to being perhaps the nuttiest version of The Tempest ever conceived, serves as a summation of Lloyd's career and a capsule vision of the things that have thematically driven his films for decades - independent thought, a cynical eye cast toward corporatism and bureaucracy, social satire, and comedic anarchy.
The end party scene is one of the defining sequences in…
This is Tarantino's best film since Pulp Fiction.
In 1969, America was a changing nation. There were growing pains, but there was also the feeling of great possibility - a nation of potential just waiting to be unleashed. Fifty years later, America is changing, but that sense of optimism and opportunity is gone. All that is left is a fascistic death rattle.
In 1969, American movies were changing, and those changes brought some of the greatest works of cinematic art…
