Reviews, Top N lists, and other sundry cinematic stuff.
Via Boing^2 (via MeFi): Empire’s 50 Greatest Independent Films. It seemed to me like there was an awful lot of blood, horror, and schlock – – but maybe those are some of the hallmarks of great indy cinema? I was surprised to see Slacker in there (well… sort of surprised) and surprised that Primer was […]
Neat article on Slate: “Star Wars: Episodes I-VI – The greatest postmodern art film ever” (by Aidan Wasley)… …Lucas takes this self-consciousness about narrative artifice a step further: He makes explicit his theoretical interest in the mechanics of plot. […] characters come to understand that there is another agent, external to themselves, that is dictating […]
First snow of teh season: October 23, 2005 see also: Fortunately, my dad and I (plus a couple friends) snuck in a quick(!?) hike up Camel’s Hump yesterday. (Pics to follow once I get the copies emailed to me; was sans camera unfortunately…) Note to self: avoid the Forest City Trail up the mountain next time. […]
Reflecting on John’s recent post (one of the comments, to be specific), it dawned on me that I’d never cast my perfect true-to-point cinematic version of Neuromancer. How sloppy of me. Armitage/Corto – John Turturro (though Gary Oldman and Christopher Walken are close runners up for this role…) Case – Jason Lee (think about it, […]
Recently I posted about the short-lived Fox series Firefly and its upcoming related film Serenity. This past weekend, A & I saw Serenity at the theater. Overall? 3/5 stars if you’re unfamiliar with the series. 4/5 stars if you are. As I mentioned re: Firefly, it’s a pretty refreshing take on the sci-fi genre and […]
Maybe I’d never heard of Firefly before because its short stint on TV happened to coincide with when A & I didn’t have one and watched even less of it. Maybe it’s Serenity‘s upcoming release that brought it on to our radar screen. Or maybe it was just chance. In short, it’s a Steampunk/Western & […]
file under: essential viewing More like “required viewing”, Gunner Palace is a documentary about the U.S. Army in Baghdad during 2003-2004 – – following the invasion (“bomb it”) and during the occupation (“build it”). What you get is the perspective of those U.S. Army soldiers during this period. Interesting the way that morale flakes and […]
The Jacket – – think Memento without the harsh nihilism. Adrien Brody is Jack Starks, a Purple Heart-ish Gulf War vet that gets stuck with a murder charge and packed away to an institution in Vermont. (“Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity” is not without its malign.) This tale spins nice moral/ethical circles re: what […]
Saw this amusing flick last night. Don’t think this is something that I would have picked up on my own but a friend left it over here urging us to give it a viewing. So we did. Funny stuff. A little strange at point, a little puerile, but fun.
(Via Boing Boing) … “Prequel Generation Questions A New Hope”… The predictable aside (“Wow! Is the Death Star done already? I guess that’s how you know that a long time has passed.” How about the fact that Obiwan is much older? Or the fact that Luke is at least “man size” (if not yet a […]