Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Miss Potter – Chris Noonan
Innocence is by definition unknowing. The ‘magic of childhood’ isn’t something a child experiences but an effort by adults to describe the palpable, heart-stopping delight they see in the eyes of children entranced, absorbed in a picture, a story, a game. Or poignantly, cherished memories of their own childhood. Most of [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Cold Mountain - Anthony Minghella
For Anthony Minghella it seems there is nothing like a good book: The English Patient (Ondaatje), The Talented Mr Ripley (Highsmith) and now his much praised adaptation of Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain. In so far as this demonstrates a faith in good writing, I’m with him all the way. But I [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Down In The Valley – David Jacobson
Don’t miss this elusive, allusive film if it hits a screen near you. See it before it becomes a cult movie. Profoundly American, it resonates with the contradictions of a culture whose real roots have been severed and is therefore struggling to live out its own mythology as a [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Syriana – Stephen Gaghan
Pascal’s wager: we can’t know whether God exists so we should weigh the benefits of belief. If we assume He does exist and act virtuously, then even if He doesn’t we have lost nothing. However if we assume He doesn’t and act badly then eternal punishment is the penalty. For Pascal a [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Legend (George Best)
Let us not talk
of genius
but celebrate
the two edged blade
of a peerless gift
from which legends
are born
This imperious Caesar’s slaves
whispered in his ear
you are a god not mere man
and so he lived our dreams
played out
our secret fantasies
and flew too close
to the consuming fire
of our desires
This flawed but
too blessed man
turned skill to art
with unreflecting joy
I am [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Birth - Jonathan Glazer
A.W Kaufman. Remember the name: a Casting Director who has managed to miscast a whole movie, with the inevitable exception of Lauren Bacall of whom one must say you can’t make a sow’s ear out of a silk purse.
For me there is not a credible performance in this odd movie. True the [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Phantom of The Opera - Director Joel Schumacher
You are on the edge your seat throughout the PTO: will the stupefying banality of the screenplay and lyrics, outstrip that of the music? It’s a close call, but after 142 interminable minutes I think the words won by a brass neck. There is after all one [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
dead-duck
The Break-Up - Peyton Read
Charmless, witless, pointless, meritless, brainless. Less-less.
(August 2006)
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Posted on September 27th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Superman Returns – Brian Singer
Billy Connolly reckons a sign of getting older is that your feet get further away – harder to reach. So we should cut Superman some slack if it now takes him two and a half hours to save the world: a little chore he used to knock off in a touch [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
bit heavy on the after-shave there Jamie
Miami Vice – Michael Mann
Michael Mann doesn’t bore us with this movie. But it is hard to believe that the director of Manhunter, Heat, and especially The Insider did not bore himself while making it. There is so little aspiration here. The original TV series was never a stay-in-for [...]
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