Posted on September 20th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Sadly, the fears I expressed in this review four years ago about Scarlett Johanssen have been realised. Lost In Translation – Sofia Coppola We can categorise films constructively in order to validate aesthetic comparisons. We more often do so lazily in order to file them away in ill-fitting pigeon holes to decide which Oscar […]
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Match Point – Director Woody Allen A new movie genre – the Les Dawson movie. In order for Les to play the piano so hilariously badly he had to be a very skilled pianist capable of playing well when he so chose. Similarly Woody Allen with Match Point. But sadly it seems not only […]
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet House Of Flying Daggers – Director Zhang Yimou In a film with some extraordinary martial arts action scenes, the most exciting sequence in this absorbing film is a dance: the ethereally beautiful Ziyi Zhang as blind heroine Mei, performs the Echo dance with an elegance, style and riveting tension, that matches anything in HOFD’s […]
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Posted on September 18th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Hitch – Director Andy Tennant Will Smith is like an olive. They say you have to eat 7 olives in a row to acquire a taste for them. Many will feel their lives will not be irreparably damaged if they don’t acquire a taste for Will. However, considered as an olive, this movie would […]
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Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Hidden Blade – Director Yoji Yamada Words can die. And the concepts they represent can die with them. Not overnight. Almost always it is of a long terminal disease characterised by neglect and misuse. Does it matter? Often not, but sometimes an important element in the way we think about ourselves and our […]
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Posted on September 16th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Lust, Caution (Se, Jie) – Ang Lee Never have I been so unsure of the integrity of a director’s artistic intention than with this erotic political thriller from Brokeback Mountain’s Ang Lee. And it matters. Lee’s sensitivity and reticence with Brokeback perhaps earns him the benefit of the doubt despite a lingering doubt that […]
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Posted on September 15th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Just Like Heaven – Director Mark Waters (BBC Prize Review) A great date movie. For romantics. If you go for light romantic comedies like Serendipity or even Sleepless in Seattle, you’ll love this one. A neat script (Peter Tolan – Analyze That; and Leslie Dixon – Mrs Doubtfire and Thomas Crown Affair) keeps the […]
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Posted on September 12th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet The Witnesses (Les Témoins) – Andre Téchiné Unsentimental but compassionate: non-judgemental but raising complex moral issues of sexuality, friendship, love and loyalty: does any nation so consistently produce such grown up, wise and thoughtful films about life, love and human relationships as the French? In the last 6 months alone Coeurs (Resnais), The Singer […]
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Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Sex And The City – Paul Michael King Butch to Sundance (trapped on the cliff face, torrent below) “we’ve gotta jump.” Sundance (embarrassed) “I can’t swim.” Butch (laughing) “don’t worry – it’s the fall that’s gonna kill ya.” I feel a bit like Sundance as I visit Planet ‘Woman’ – where I am sometimes […]
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Posted on September 10th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Finding Neverland – Marc Foster The Peter Pan story can either rot the brain or lift the spirit. Decades of commercial exploitation have virtually sucked it dry of any true feeling. Yet it seems to touch something so deep in us that it is indestructible. It must be to have survived the aesthetically treacly […]
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