What’s a handheld-camera movie where the shaky-cam technique was a good idea?
What’s a movie where you found yourself shouting, “Enough with the handheld camera already!”
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Casablanca? Henry IV? Ordet? (more…)
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Hi ho, Jeffrey the Recovering Storyteller here.
It’s my first real day off since completing Raven’s Ladder. I plan to rest. Write reviews. And see movies. 500 Days of Summer and District 9, to be specific. My friend, painter Laura Lasworth, loved the first one, and blogger Mark Shea, who I encountered in the grocery store parking lot yesterday, was very impressed by the second. Can’t wait to see them both.
But first, some notes… (more…)
Ron Reed’s review of the riveting Andrei Rublev really resonates, reminding me to revisit it.
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If anyone here took my recommendation and rented The Orphanage, I apologize.
Today, I discovered that I was wrong. Three critics from the scholarly review known as Amazon.com have set me straight.
During a roundtable interview with Michael Caine, I watched the actor make a tent of his fingers, furrow his brow, and ponder this question: “Is there something that you wish moviegoers and filmcritics would learn to understand about movies, something we just don’t get?”
Caine’s reply intrigues me. Come on over to Filmwell, and find out what he said in answer… and what that has to do with the title of this post.
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