Posted on May 24th, 2009 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Il Divo - Paolo Sorrentino (2008)
Shakespearean in content, operatic in tone, writer director Paolo Sorrentino’s Il Divo (the extraordinary life of Giulio Andreotti) is a masterly work. Richly textured and at times demanding, Sorrentino’s film is a profound study of power, and its irresistible affects on men who possess it and those drawn to them. [...]
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Posted on October 21st, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
The Hunted - William Friedkin
The Hunted is a nasty little film. Brutal and brutalising. Because it displays considerable mastery of many aesthetic techniques of film-making, the way in which is it bad raises interesting philosophical and aesthetic questions. It is what one might call an aesthetically immoral movie.
The attribution of moral concepts (logically) requires the [...]
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Posted on October 20th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Cinema vs DVD - Zettel
Pauline Kael once said: “Anyone who watches a movie on video is guilty of an aesthetic crime of which they are themselves, the victim.”
There are a number of reasons usually adduced to support this point of view. The first is to do with the frame. It is argued that the much-reduced [...]
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