Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet In Search Of A Midnight Kiss – Alex Holdridge The most powerful sex organ in the body it is said, rightly I think, lies not between the legs but between the ears. We have sex with a body – we make love to a person. To make contact with a person is to connect […]
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Posted on September 6th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Elizabethtown – Director Cameron Crowe (BBC Prize Review) Elizabethtown is a great, great movie. In both senses. It will make you laugh, and cry, and will keep surprising you throughout. It fits no pigeonholes. A bit like life really. But it takes a while to adjust to its quirky, eccentricities of tone and narrative. […]
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Posted on September 2nd, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Before Sunset – Richard Linklater Before Sunset is a movie for writers. The love story is a tough genre: if we don’t connect with the characters and their relationship – there is no film. Jesse and Celine connect; with each other and with us, even after the nine years since they, and we, last […]
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Posted on August 31st, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Coeurs – Private Fears In Public Places – Alan Resnais A truly wise film. In every sense. Director Resnais almost 50 years on from Hiroshima Mon Amour assembles with masterly assurance all the cinematic arts to serve his narrative and emotional purpose: from award-winning Eric Gauthier’s evocative cinematography; through precise, unobtrusive editing; a subtle […]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Crash – Director Paul Haggis Art and Architecture have one key thing in common: both need foundations. The bigger the building, the deeper and stronger the foundations it needs. Crash is like a complex set of card houses: eight overlapping linked structures are fashioned with great skill into a neatly integrated whole. But it […]
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Posted on August 30th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Brokeback Mountain – Director Ang Lee (January 2006) The most American film of the year should be an Oscar first. A shared best actor award for Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger It is hard to see how the leading role, supporting role distinction can be sustained in this absorbing, multi-layered film at the emotional […]
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Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Atonement – Joe Wright (BBC Prize Review) Andre Previn to Eric Morecombe, “you’re playing all the wrong notes.” Eric Morecombe, lifting the Maestro up onto his toes by his DJ lapels, “no, I’m playing all the right notes……but not necessarily in the right order.” Joe Wright has gone one better in this extraordinarily bad […]
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Posted on August 28th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet 3-Iron – Director KIM Ki-Duk (BBC Prize-winning review) Of all the words a film critic needs least, ‘exquisite’ must be near the top of the list. Yet this is precisely the word for this hauntingly beautiful film which celebrates with a rare delicacy and sensitivity – love, life and our freedom just to be. […]
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Posted on August 22nd, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet In The Cut – Jane Campion Reviews of Jane Campion’s In The Cut have been shamefully grudging. Always an interesting Director, her intriguing, challenging film has been dreadfully served by Distributors. This is surprising for a bad reason as it is, briefly, perhaps the most sexually explicit movie so far in main line cinema […]
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Posted on August 19th, 2008 by Zettel Film Reviewer
Tweet Dan In Real Life – Peter Hedges An imaginary phone call – Juliette Binoche and the film’s, imaginary Producer Mr Faeed. Setting up her role in this movie. MF Hey Jools JB Pardon? MF S’me. Al. JB What did you call me? MF Jools. It’s just a pet name baby. JB (icily) Pet? You […]
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