The Lobster
Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster (2016) is one of the darkest films that I have seen this year. In terms of its concept and narrative structure Lanthimos’ film is clearly indebted… Read more »
Tag: 2010s
Gone Girl
David Fincher is one of those filmmakers whose style has become a commodity unto itself; often imitated, more often admired, and tremendously marketable. Like Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and Ridley… Read more »
The Grand Budapest Hotel
It’s been years since Wes Anderson transcended the cult status of his earlier films. Bottle Rocket (1996) and Rushmore (1998) offered a highly stylized, if not completely unreal, suggestion of what was… Read more »
Skyfall
Skyfall (2012), is the most popular outing for Daniel Craig as James Bond (directed by Sam Mendes). Mendes is a highly theatrical director whose concerns with character development often manifest… Read more »
Hitchcock
One always hopes that while watching a film, one experiences a sort of revelation as a result of some cinematic innovation, at least from a critical perspective. But in the… Read more »
Dunkirk
The history of the cinema is replete with instances in which filmmakers have gone to extravagant lengths to establish a credible realism. The most extreme ventures of this sort often… Read more »
Spectre
I’ll admit it, I enjoy the James Bond films. It’s a guilty pleasure, and I would not defend them if anyone said they are bad, I know that. But I… Read more »
Let The Fire Burn
Jason Osder’s Let The Fire Burn (2013) is undermined by the subtextual void created by Osder’s lack of commitment to explaining to his audience the very nature of MOVE, the supposed… Read more »
Logan
“This repression of the ‘non-serious’ aspects of pleasure, of a discourse of fun, is not, of course, a total exclusion. Notions of distraction, diversion, and entertainment have appeared with regularity… Read more »
A Quiet Passion
I saw Terence Davies’ film A Quiet Passion (2016) the other day. It was the most thoroughly engaging cinematic experience I have had in a theater in the last year…. Read more »
