Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Back To Land
Life was going swimmingly
when an sudden current surged,
and swept me out to sea.
I watched the land
and all so dear to me,
recede into the distance
as I struggled
just to be.
Against a dark unfathomed sea
I thrashed about and battled
but couldn’t struggle free.
exhausted, I just floated
and let the current take me.
Terrified, I waited patiently
till death’s sweet call [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Farenheit 9/11 - Michael Moore
Fahrenheit is a devastating, important film. It is passionate, partisan and manipulative; at times queasily so. But Moore knows his business: his treatment of the events of 9/11 is masterly; restricting himself to black screen for the impacts, then concentrating on human reactions. This way he evokes images indelibly seared into [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Adaptation - Spike Jonze
‘Adaptation’ is a rarity – a cinematic film that relishes language and lets it drive its substance rather than merely subserviently lubricate a deterministic plot. A picture may be worth a thousand words but an image still has a ‘grammar’: its semantic power parasitic upon the language and the culture that surrounds [...]
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Posted on July 29th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Notre Musique - Director Jean-Luc Godard
If you love film - see this. If ideas engage you - see this. If you believe language and poetry embrace more than words - don’t miss this. Notre Musique shows a master film-maker on top of his game.
Most people who know film, have a Godard movie they love and, [...]
Filed under: 5 stars, Documentary, Europe/World cinema, Jean-Luc Godard, Philosophical, Political | No Comments »
Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
A Very Long Engagement - Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet
A Very Long Engagement is a great read. The film I mean, I haven’t read the book. It is not so much a film of a book as what one might call a ‘book-film’. I have never seen a film which more recalled the experience of reading a [...]
Filed under: 3 star, Drama, Europe/World cinema, General, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Romance, War | No Comments »
Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Wanted – Timur Bekmambetov
Good Fascist fun - or simply silly, senseless and sadistic. If unwisely, you pays your money, you can take your choice. The character list gives the fatal clue: Mr X, The Exterminator, The Repairman (Ooooh - look out, here come the plumber), The Butcher (aptly named), The mono-nominal Gunsmith is even played [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
What The Bleep Do We Know? – Directors: Arntz, Chasse, Vincente.
(BBC Prize Review)
Wind up a scientist – praise this movie! One distinguished writer on science has used terms like ‘atrocious, ‘junk’ and offers the view that if you know anything about science you will be violently ill after seeing it.’ Now you gotta be interested [...]
Filed under: *BBC Prize Reviews*, 4 stars, Arntz/Chasse, Documentary, Philosophical, Political | No Comments »
Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The City
Cold wet streets
echo footsteps
of following fear
a hungry animal
prowling round my city
rheum-eyed wraiths
hunted and haunted
by neon glares
return rain-cold
recriminatory stares
Rag-huddled in cold
a life-worn once-man
in foetal embrace
protects his flame
guttering body heat
to the pestering wind
invisible to shame
and scurrying guilt
thanks God’s grace
him not me.
Bright lit tubes
suck in their fares
pump them like blood
through a hidden network
of arterial branches
to the city’s [...]
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Posted on July 27th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Babel – Alejandro Gonzalez Inárritu
(BBC Prize Review)
Simply a masterpiece: of conception and writing, direction, performance and technical accomplishment integrating the whole. If not already, Inárritu will be one of the great directors. This is a work of consummate warmth and humanity – beyond language, beyond religion, beyond politics. In a world bedevilled and threatened by [...]
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Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The World Trade Centre – Oliver Stone
Non-political? Give me a break. Oliver Stone should never have been let anywhere near this film. Not because of his supposed left wing political views, but because he has always been an exploitative film-maker. And sure enough, ‘World Trade Centre’ is manipulative, sentimental, patronising and exploitative. Parts of it [...]
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