The film ‘Brutalist,’ as probably many would agree, would have suited Pansy, the main character, quite well. Pansy is neither an architect nor a person who feels well, in her old age. In Pansy’s case, the manner in which she interacts with everyone be it her family, grocery store cashiers, and furniture store sales people […]
“Day of the Fight” plays out like a common underdog movie and while it is not exactly a masterpiece, it doesn’t feel out of place either. The movie chronicles the story of the Brooklyn fighter Irish Mike Flannigan (played by Michael Pitt) on the verge of a significant fight for him in almost a decade,
Sujo unfolds to be an uncompromising view that tells us about the cyclical oppression emanating from violence. The story begins with a shadowy scene from the past, remembering the words of a rugged horse: He’s always getting away,” said the owner to a child. The scene cut transitions to vision from Josue’s terrifying eyes capturing
I cannot shake off the griping sense of hopelessness and despair I got from Magnus von Horn’s “The Girl with the Needle” and “Beanpole” combined. It’s an idée fixe that these films ruthless portray, women with nowhere to go, struggling their entire lives while being shoved deeper into the gutter. This case arises as the
The title ‘The Unstoppables’ would be more fitting, because this based on true life sportsman who faces odds and thrives, only to evolve into a motivational speaker saga, contains two protagonists. One is Anthony Robles (Jharrel Jerome), a one-legged wresting champion, and the second, is a battered domestic violence survivor and devoted mother to Anthony
Challenging as a moral experience Joshua Oppenheimer’s two documentaries “The Act of Killing” (2012) and “The Look of Silence” (2014) for Indonesia’s communist genocide perpetrators as he asks them to imagine themselves in the headspace of a person who killed during the 1960’s communist purge in Indonesia. Oppenheimer provokes them to relish and re-image the
In director Justin Kurzel’s “The Order,” Jude Law has the scruffiest look of his career. He stars in the film as FBI agent Terry Husk, but considering his portrayal, he seems more of a husk than an agent. He looked disheveled. His big body was hunched over, his unshaven stubble looked sloppy, and his gum
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
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
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
