Posted on February 26th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel – JohnMadden If I were an artist I would want to paint her; I wish I were a better poet that she might read one of my poems; and if my life-long ambition, which will not now be fulfilled, to Direct a movie came true – I […]
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Posted on February 25th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet If you want to play the Oscars Game – a bollot you can print off. http://o.aolcdn.com/os/movies/awards/2012-oscar-ballot
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Posted on February 25th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Rampart – Oren Moverman When did the Hollywood Dream factory re-tool to produce nightmares? Was there a key year; a definitive film? I always feel the repressed misogyny in largely male directed movies finally crossed a borderline with Brian de Palma’s 1980 Dressed To Kill: the first film I remember where I was, […]
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Posted on February 22nd, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Man On A Ledge – Asgar Leth Workmanlike thriller with a central device that generates tension at first then gradually suffers from the law of diminishing dramatic returns. Nick Cassidy (Sam Worthington) is an ex-cop jailed for stealing a legendary diamond from ruthless tycoon David Englander (Ed Harris). Claiming he was framed, […]
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Posted on February 20th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close – Stephen Daldry Danny Leigh on Film 2012 about 11 year-old Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn), central character of Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (ELIC): “gratingly precocious..hyper-verbal….bag of neuroses….a monster…etc”. Philip French (Guardian) on the same film: “reveals itself as a hollow, calculated, manipulative film. It uses the events of 9/11 […]
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Posted on February 18th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Woman In The Fifth -Pawel Pawlikowski Editing is the grammar of movies; their syntax and their punctuation. It renders the images and sequences accessible to us, influencing their meaning and determining the dramatic tone and pace of the film, its narrative and our reaction to both. Parallels with writing are clear: how […]
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Posted on February 17th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Casablanca – Michael Curtiz (1942) If you haven’t seen Casablanca in the cinema, on a big screen – you haven’t really ever seen it. Critics and people who write about movies because they love them can analyse the difference this makes in rational terms but the power great films like this, and it […]
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Posted on February 14th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet About Love and Loss – on Valentine’s Day No one likes this movie. Yet it is beautifully written, very well played and supported by an excellent original score by Michel Jared. Message in a Bottle Note placed in a bottle and thrown into the sea. Catherine’s message in a bottle To all the […]
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Posted on February 13th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet For Valentine’s Day Before Sunrise and it’s companion piece Before Sunset were recently voted 3rd most romantic films of all time. I’d have moved them up one slot. Amidst the commoditisation and trivialisation of romance and love that Valentine’s day largely represents – this is offered a snippet of dialogue that […]
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Posted on February 12th, 2012 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Carnage – Roman Polanski Why? – must be the first question that comes to mind when adapting a work from another medium to film. The most obvious answer is the commercial hedge it represents to take a work with a proven track record of success. French dramatist Yasmina Reza’s play Le Dieu du Carnage was […]
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