Posted on August 10th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Good Night and Good Luck – Director George Clooney Many films are good. Some films are important. Good Night and Good Luck is a rarity – a film that is both. Occasionally a film transcends its medium. Its aspiration demanding appraisal beyond the aesthetic. Cinematically GNAGL is as good as any of its fellow […]
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Posted on August 10th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Storm of Protest In the restless tide dreams ebbed hopes carried deep by the undertow of experience Cold eyed cruel beaked gulls shrieked and swooped to carry off the unshelled flesh of desire Under the darkening sky rebellion grew and struggled free but fell again into the indifferent sea The breaking storm shook the […]
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Posted on August 10th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Elegy – Isabel Coixet Age is not oldness. Age is a fact, oldness is an attitude to life. It is the besetting vice of our culture to conflate these two concepts leading to misunderstanding and misinterpretation of both. So we invest ‘age’ with a social and moral significance it should not have: and promote […]
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Posted on August 8th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet About Schmidt – Alexander Payne The late Pauline Kael – one of the consistently best writers on movies for over 30 years and the feistiest, had a pet hate: meretricious movies cynically calculated in conception and performance to manipulate easy emotion and worse, to plug into the worthy sentimentality characteristic of the Oscar Academy […]
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Posted on August 8th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Sweeney Todd – Tim Burton Question: is it possible for a Director with unique flair and imagination to collaborate with a musician and lyricist generally acknowledged as possessing greatness touching on genius; blessed with a charismatic and talented cast; shot, dressed and filmed with great professional skill – to produce with commitment and sincerity, […]
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Posted on August 7th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
TweetThe Game Cut the crap the dealer said wanna talk – talk wanna play – play don’t talk and play don’t play and talk It ain’t just a game until you’re out you’re in deep Gimme no shit ’bout lousy cards ain’t no such thing just cards cards’ what you get hand’s what you play […]
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Posted on August 6th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Man On Wire – James Marsh Perhaps absurdity defines us best as human beings. In the natural world we can see endless examples of organisation, planning, preparation; even in rudimentary form, the use of language. Dogs and Primates are credited with ‘selfless’ acts that in humans we would call altruistic. But when 23 year-old […]
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet 2 Days In Paris – Julie Delpy Confession: I love Julie Delpy. My wife knows. We are on a fantasy quid pro quo with Julie for me and Luvly Lee Mead (the sickeningly handsome, sickeningly talented, sickeningly nice Joseph) for her. I only share this embarrassing revelation with you dear reader as a warning […]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Standard Operating Procedure – Errol Morris Oscar-winning Director Errol Morris (Fog of War) turns his forensic camera on the evidence, the participants and the events in the scandal that was Abu Ghraib the American military prison in Iraq. The abuse, humiliation, torture and probably at least one murder of prisoners over a series of […]
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Posted on August 3rd, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Dark Knight – Christopher Nolan “Do I look like a man with a plan?” The Joker (Heath Ledger). British Director Christopher Nolan, courtesy of brother Jonathon’s screenplay has taken the hackneyed Batman franchise and turned it into classical myth. It is by far the most philosophical of the Batman movies and I doubt […]
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