I don’t know what makes me go and see the Harry Potter films. They’re not really very good. Even this last one, which does have it’s moments. But that’s what they are: moments. A two-and-a-half-hour string of moments. So to celebrate this fact, I offer a series of salient — at least, to me — [...]
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I’ve been watching a lot of films with theological content lately. Seems only right, considering what I do for a living, but I’ve been thinking specifically about them because I had to show four to a bunch of Presbyterians over the past few days. What I chose was: Places in the Heart (I know, I [...] Sevarus ponders his replies I am in awe of Dennis Cozzalio and his Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule, the name of which perfectly incapsulates two of its author’s obsessions: baseball and film. It is a beloved fixture in the film blogosphere, and a lot of us drop whatever we’re doing and work [...] Peet Gelderblom of the late, lamented Directorama has just completed principal photography on his short film Out of Sync. According to Peet, he shot it with the RED camera (!) and a name Dutch cast, none of whom I’ve ever heard, probably because I’m not from the Netherlands). He says he has picture-locked the film, which [...] It’s TOEROIFC time in the movie blogo-sphere. And this time, the film is Black Book, director Paul Verhoeven’s lookto the Dutch resistance in WWII. It’s over at Ed Howard’s Only the Cinema. TOERIFC (The Oldest Established Really Important Film Club) is where a growing bunch of us come once a month to comment on a film [...] Seems I’ve been on a Bergman kick lately; as evidence of this, there’s a piece of mine on Saraband, his last theatrical release, over at Ibe Tolis’ Film for the Soul. It’s part of his series “Counting Down the Noughties,” which has brought together some fine reviews of films since 2000, by some of the [...] Talk to Her opens with a ballet. A curtain rises to reveal two older women, eyes closed, stumbling around a stage. One leads, the other follows, mimicking her movements, and interpreting them in dance. The first woman clings to a wall, seemingly stuck to it; the second follows suit, upstage, moments later. The first [...] A great cast, at the top of their form. That’s what comes to mind when I think of The Philadelphia Story. Cary Grant at his dark-eyed best. Katherine Hepburn in all her lanky glory. James Stewart, morose and hilarious at the same time. I hadn’t seen the film in years before I saw it on [...] After Ingmar Bergman’s death in 2007, he was re-evaluated within the cinematic community, most infamously in Jonathan Rosenbaum’s “Scenes From an Overrated Career,” the title of which pretty much says it all. There emerged a feeling that while the works of other art-house heros — e.g., Truffaut, Kurosawa and Fellini — have maintained their status, [...] |
  
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Harry Potter films are sort of like the old Illustrated Classics comics where “Ivanhoe” or “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” is made into a crappily-illustrated graphic novel that dumbs down the story to a three-year-old level. Only they cost a lot more. Harry Potter and the Half-Baked Prince cost $250 million to make and $155 [...]