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Every Blogger down in Blogville liked Christmas a lot But the Migrinch who lived just North of Blogville did not! The Migrinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! The Bloggers’ inactivity was partly the reason. It could be, perhaps, that his lager was too light. It could be his head wasn’t screwed on just right. … Continue reading
Skyfall, the title of the 23rd James Bond film, was finally announced earlier this month. To make sure that returning Agent 007 Daniel Craig and first-time Bond director Sam Mendes don’t make another Quantum of Solace, they need to look back at 1973’s Enter the Dragon, Bruce Lee’s final film released just a few days … Continue reading
When Orson Welles said that Jean-Luc Godard had enormous gifts as a director but his message “could be written on the head of a pin”, he hit it on the nose: Godard’s work is defined by style over substance. With Masculin, féminin, Godard actually one-ups himself by filming just style for 103 minutes. Grade: F- Verdict: … Continue reading
The Hollow Men T. S. Eliot Mistah Kurtz—he dead. A penny for the Old Guy I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats’ feet over broken glass … Continue reading
Repulsion, a psychological thriller directed by Roman Polanski, is a pretty good movie. At first it seems to just be another Polanski flick about chicks and jazz, but it turns out to be much more when Carole Ledoux, portrayed by Catherine Deneuve, starts cracking up! She doesn’t like men, so she stays in her sister’s … Continue reading
十三人の刺客 is shockingly boring and long, but not paying attention to it gave me time to ponder one of the film’s main themes: harakiri. I don’t think about harakiri as much as I used to. I used to think about it more often than I would like to admit, but over the past year or … Continue reading
Dear Andrei Tarkovsky STOP I recently watched your film Solaris STOP I think it is a brilliant psychologically complex drama and an important and challenging contribution to cinema history STOP You are unsurpassed by anyone in the creation of mood and atmosphere STOP For what it is worth your film moved me deeply STOP I … Continue reading
Written and directed by Leonardo DiCaprio, who also stars in the dashing lead role, The Blog is the story of a group of high-school-friends-cum-bloggers who get trapped inside the TV and film review blog they create. Eerily reminiscent of the plot of the 1982 science fiction classic Tron, the film follows the bloggers attempting to … Continue reading
A common lament is for the underlying Eurocentrism in “world cinema”. Whenever people talk about “foreign films”, they tend to discuss the pristine aesthetics of French films, the depth of storytelling by Italian auteurs, and the cinematographic experiments taking place across much of Northern Europe. Shortsighted film critics are partly to blame for promoting such … Continue reading
I thought hitting rock bottom would make a louder sound. Grade: F- Verdict: Watch it and then join my hate mail campaign targeting director Jean-Luc Godard, buddy!
Watch It, Buddy! 