http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 03 Jan 2009 13:41:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1743" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Ernesto 'Che' Guevara "][/caption] Che – Steven Soderbergh The essence of art is selection: and the logic of selection defines what is left out. The collaborative nature of the art of film-making increases the need for such eliminating decisions exponentially – casting, screenplay, lighting, angle, editing, music, sound ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2009/01/che-part-1-and-part-2-soderberghs-che-iconic-charismatic-idealistic-but-opaque/ The Blind Man's Stick The blind man’s stick sees his world tapping truth into a sightless mind. He may misread the stick, but it cannot lie its urgent finger tip escapes dependency This reaching out to feel the world life to lifeless wood his mind bestows and through this probing touch he knows what we can only see. Eyes ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2009/01/the-blind-mans-stick-poem-seeing-touching-other-minds/ [caption id="attachment_1735" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="at one"][/caption] Love Is Not A Young Man’s Game Can you feel her sadness before she sheds her tears Can you sense her doubts before she shows her fears Do you simply hold her when that is all she needs Do you hear her not just listen wherever her heart leads Do you know her body as ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2008/12/love-is-not-a-young-mans-game-poem-man-woman-re-union/ Eternity Eternity seen as endless time leaves life’s mystery untouched A sentence with no point a story with no end a journey with no arrival a life with no youth or age knowledge with no wisdom beauty with no rebirth and love without its deepest power of loss Death is part of the grammar of life http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2008/12/eternity-poem/ [caption id="attachment_1712" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="frankly my dear - don't give a damn"][/caption] Australia – Baz Luhrman A Christmas party game: invent the worst film titles you can imagine that would put you off going to see a film at all. Some suggestions: Hilarious, Genius, The Movie, Driver, Power and Glory. The only ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2008/12/australia-unlike-the-movie-even-the-aborginal-shaman-has-one-leg-to-stand-on/ [caption id="attachment_1701" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="boys with toys"][/caption] Gommora – Matteo Garrone Thomas Hobbes, 16th Century English philosopher once described human life without government, state authority, as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.” Garrone’s award-winning film occupies a Hobbesian world: neither his Direction nor Maurizio Braucchi’s screenplay, based upon Roberto Saviano’s whistle-blowing book ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2008/12/gomorra-death-as-the-price-of-a-life-you-choose/ [caption id="attachment_1694" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Salma and Ziad"][/caption] Lemon Tree – Eran Riklis At the very heart of this quiet, dignified film is a performance by Israeli-Arab Hiam Abbass of such power and stillness that it not only draws us into the pain and mental anguish of poor Palestinian widow Salma Zidane, but ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2008/12/lemon-tree-etz-limon-palestineisrael-allegory-and-metaphor/ [caption id="attachment_1684" align="alignnone" width="250" caption="two pepperoni pizzas to go - ok son?"][/caption] The Day The Earth Stood Still – Scott Derrickson Keanu Reeves is an Alien: it’s not often you get to write a sentence with three different meanings that is true whichever of them you apply.  As a description of Keanu’s ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2008/12/the-day-the-earth-stood-still/ [caption id="attachment_1679" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="much in common"][/caption] The Inauguration of President-elect Obama – a world, not just American celebration. The celebration of president elect Obama’s inauguration will be shared by the world. Its ethnic and racial symbolism touches all nations, all people. A black US President will mark though not an end, ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2008/12/president-elect-obama-inauguration-a-letter-to-america/ [caption id="attachment_1675" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="ancient voices, ancient spirits"][/caption] Idjagiedas (In The Hand Of The Night) – Mari Boine This music has ancient roots. It strikes a deep chord within us, which resonates. Mari Boine is Sami, from northern Norway.  A place we used to call Lapland.  “Norway?  Music? Get outta here”!  Bear ... http://www.zettelfilmreviews.co.uk/2008/12/idjagiedas-cd-review-world-music-norway-mari-boine/