Analysis & Commentary Rick on 15 Feb 2008
Warning: There be spoilers ahead!
Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood explores themes that include the dynamics between fathers and sons, the corrosive effects of greed, and the role of religion in the rise of industrial capitalism. This last is perhaps the most striking, but it’s also the most misunderstood. It’s been [...]
Tags: capitalism, greed, Paul Thomas Anderson, religion, There Will Be Blood
Analysis & Commentary and Short Take Rick on 27 Jan 2008
One of the distinctive things about the last years in film was the polarizing of bloggers and critics and others around either Joel and Ethan Coen’s No Country for Old Men or Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood. I’m not sure what to make of it . . . it seemed that they were [...]
Tags: Anderson, Daniel Day-Lewis, Film, movie, There Will Be Blood
News Rick on 06 Jan 2008
David Bordwell likes the National Treasure franchise. No . . . really! And he thinks their producer, Jerry Bruckheimer, is “the most astute producer now working in Hollywood.” Why? You can (and should) go to his blog to read his full argument, but it has to do with his ability to [...]
Tags: Armond White, Bordwell, Bruckheimer, Djarling Limited, National Treasure, P.T. Anderson, There Will Be Blood
News Rick on 02 Jan 2008
Movie City News is keeping track of the year-end goings on; they’ve got a Big-Ass Chart (don’t blame me, that’s what they call it) with upwards of 175 critics’ top-ten lists tabulated. By their reckoning, the film with the most cred on critic’s year-end lists is No Country for Old Men, by a long [...]
Tags: Coens, Film, Juno, Movie City News, movies, No Country for Old Men, Once, Oscars, There Will Be Blood, top-ten lists
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