Like most who saw Fernando Meirelles‘ City of God, I liked it; unlike many, I didn’t love it, and I’m not sure why. It was daring, kinetic and exciting and I became engaged with the characters–especially Rocket (Alexandre Rodrigues) and Benny (Phellipe Haagensen)–but, it just didn’t connect on any deep level. Maybe it was that [...]
There have been a couple of things that set off my offense-o-meter recently, and they both revolve around censorship. In a clean-up operation apparently related to the Beijing Summer Olympics, the Chinese government has been cracking down on eroticism in the movies. The latest flap involves Tang Wei, the young star of Ang [...]
I realize some of this is not the freshest news in the land, but hey … I was in Atlanta, working to grade, of all things, ordination exams. So here is some catch-up news.
Over at Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule — Dennis Cozallio’s blog, the name of which I wish I’d thought [...]
Where’s Raquel Welch when you need her? I thought 10,000 B.C. was going to be a remake of the Ray Harryhausen/ Raquel Welch pot-boiler One Million Years BC , but no. If Raquel had been around, it might at least have had some camp charm, but this new flick, directed by Roland Emmerich of [...]
Wes Anderson’s The Darjeeling Limited appeared on DVD last week, and it’s a perfect example of one of the down-sides to this cinema-blogging thing: in keeping up with my fellow bloggers, I learn way too much about films before they even open. In the case of Anderson’s film, I learned that critics were [...]
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