As one of its major themes, City of God painfully illustrates poverty’s numerous privations: the few choices, the slim chances, the narrow and vicious minds.
Tag Archives: Drama
Liberation Aesthetics: Sinning and Surviving in Meirelles’ City of God
Posted in Film Reviews Also tagged City of God, Crime, Fernando Meirelles, Gang Wars, Poverty, Rio de Janeiro
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The Hoax – Too Close For Comfort
Why do we feel blocked from our own laughter, sadness and outrage when we watch The Hoax? – This film has caught us as a society standing too close to the mirror.
America Out To Pasture: The Good Shepherd
Is it possible to make an engaging film about a bureaucrat who carries a briefcase instead of a gun? Ask second-time director Robert De Niro.
Posted in Film Reviews Also tagged Angelina Jolie, CIA, Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, The Good Shepherd, William Hurt
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Her Majesty, The Queen
Helen Mirren has the goods to be the queen – all the others merely players in her court.
Posted in Film Reviews Also tagged Biography, Helen Mirren, James Cromwell, Michael Sheen, The Queen
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Sex and the Chateau: Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette
What all of this adds up to is a biography of feeling, rather than fact, and a charming one at that.
Posted in Film Reviews Also tagged Biography, Film, Jason Schwartzman, Kirsten Dunst, Marie Antoinette, Rip Torn, Sofia Coppola
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Idlewild: Act Like You Know
Trust OutKast to steal the familiarity out of a passage that has long-since been deemed cliché and to grant it new meaning.
The Departed: Less than Perfect, but All is Forgiven
In The Departed, nobody rides for free, and very few survive. And in this knock-down drag-out between a character and his environment, you should put your money on the neighborhood.
Posted in Film Reviews Also tagged Boston, Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Martin Scorsese, Matt Damon, The Departed, William Monahan
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On the Road with Little Miss Sunshine
The ensemble cast of Little Miss Sunshine embraces the absurdity of family life, from Proust to pornography.
Posted in Film Reviews Also tagged Alan Arkin, Comedy, Greg Kinnear, Homosexuality, Little Miss Sunshine, Pornography, Proust, Steve Carell, Toni Collette
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The Illusionist: The Bamboozle has Captured Us
How often we become mindless sheep who find entertainment in the weirdest of places.
Posted in Film Reviews Also tagged Carl Sagan, Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, Magic, Paul Giamatti, The Illusionist
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Rehearsal
What is it with the fucking Tylenol P.M.? You have stock in the company?
