Posts Tagged ‘Drafthouse Films’
Film Review – The Keeping Room
There are a lot of interesting ideas running through The Keeping Room (2014), although I’m not so sure it fleshes any of them out thoroughly. Directed by Daniel Barber and written by Julia Hart, this is a reexamination of the classic western motif. Themes such…
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Film Review – The Look of Silence
Director Joshua Oppenheimer said he set out to fail* in making The Look of Silence – but in failing, to discover something important about how that failure happened.
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Film Review – Roar
Lions and tigers and… cheetahs and cougars and panthers and an elephant, oh my. Giant cats of the world, while adorable, are typically regarded as wild, dangerous animals and are treated as such. Unless you’re Noel Marshall, Tippi Hedren, daughter Melanie Griffith, or one of…
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Film Review – Mood Indigo
Michel Gondry is one of the most unique filmmakers working today. His ability to create imagery out of spare parts is unmatched – there are very few who exhibit such a sense of whimsy in a world of paper mache and cardboard cutouts. Sadly, Gondry’s…
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Film Review – The Final Member
Men are obsessed with their own ding-a-lings. We fetishize them, brag about them, name them, protect them, imbue them with all of our manly attributes, credit them with our success, insult others, adjust them, play with them, overestimate them, and spend an inordinate amount of…
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SIFF Film Review – A Band Called Death
I’m in a pretty ridiculous phase right now where I hate listening to classic rock music, or really anything I consider an “oldie,” including the punk rock music I listened to ceaselessly in the ‘80s. It’s ridiculous because the only music I do want to…
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Film Review – Graceland
Ron Morales’s Graceland (2012) is a mostly effective thriller hailing from the Philippines. Being Filipino myself, I’m glad to see films from there making their way to the States, because at this point (at least in the mainstream) they are still few and far between.…
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SXSW Film Review – The Act of Killing
There are few films that have legitimately left a chill down my spine. The Act of Killing (2012) is one of them. This is a haunting, disturbing, and eye-opening documentary that looks into the minds of mass murderers. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer (and co-directed by…
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