Despite the fact that Paul Schrader historically wrote about a unique aspect of film, which featured men who kept diaries or self-initiated journals in how Robert Bresson’s “Diary of a Country Priest”, which was a highly important movie to Paul Schrader’s film philosophy. He has a long-standing interest in Bresson, who appears in the title […]
The film Separated, directed by Errol Morris, has an interesting storyline. Its about the dastardly practice of separating families at the Mexico US border through the eyes of a Mexican American family. Morris’s secondary characters move to the center with their back stories and their analysis. This is Morris’s trademark style. His examination of the
It seems to be the start of a Charles Manson cult regarding the film “It’s Not Me”, my previous statement might sound like I’m being sarcastic or sour but I genuinely hold a lack of regard for The Criterion Channel because all its films holding some semblance of cult bearing are bland and don’t come
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In his film “A Complete Unknown”, James Mangold compromises what it means to portray a life, in this case Bob Dylan’s life, while still depicting montage principles in relation to art. This is certainly a first out of many for Mangold’s filmography, as Dylan is probably one of the more famous individuals to be featured
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“Kraven the Hunter” was the name that appeared on papers as Sony’s another Spider-Man spin off, but a lot of bad reviews and cut down scenes later, the movie did nothing to expand Sony’s universe of Spiderman. ‘Madame Web’, ‘Venom: The Last Dance’ and even ‘Kraven the hunter’ turned out to be a disappointment, to
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Some movies are simply better translated onto the screen than others. RaMell Ross’ ‘Nickel Boys’ is one of them. It is an interesting reimagining of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer winning novel. One can be rather certain about the film with the confidence that rules the story. The film constructs the powerful tale of a young Elwood
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Herzog has always been fascinated by the human experience rising to meet the greatest challenges of the human experience such as living within the mouth of a volcano, the darkest voids of the earth and getting into the mind of a man who only spends time among grizzly bears. In his latest documentary ‘Theater of
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In Scrap, we follow adult siblings Ben, Anthony Rapp, who is an accomplished fantasy writer, and Beth, writer and director Vivian Kerr, who is a single mother of a five-year-old daughter named Birdy who struggles to make ends meet. After Bens parents passed away in a plane crash, he took in his sister, Beth. Now
“Dirty Angels”, directed by Martin Campbell, is a bland, run of the mill hostage thriller based in Afghanistan that gives the viewer a sense of de ja vu from the mid 2000s. The weak plot, flat characters and over generalization of Middle eastern culture surely help with that. Blood and gore seems to be the
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The purpose behind the making of the certain a movie sometimes tends to be all that you need to know. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ Kamiyama directs claims to be a prequel to the start of the trilogy however it has no relevance to the story whatsoever nor does it
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