Posts Tagged ‘Sony Pictures Classics’
Film Review – Mr. Turner
J.M.W. Turner was considered a controversial painter in the 19th century. His use of light and his elevating of landscape painting as an art form to rival historical paintings in England was seen as one of the key forerunners of the impressionist movement. Fellow artists…
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Film Review – Foxcatcher
The awards buzz swirling around Foxcatcher is no joke. Advertisements rely heavily on the tour de force performance by a nearly unrecognizable Steve Carell, and he puts in arguably the best performance of his career as an increasingly unhinged heir to the Du Pont family…
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Film Review – Magic in the Moonlight
Throughout his career, Woody Allen has continuously revisited the theme of artifice versus reality. How people perceive the universe and how things really are has been something of an obsession for him. Much like Ingmar Bergman, Allen has questioned and fretted over religion, the thought…
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Film Review – Third Person
I think a lot about what makes a film successful. I’m not talking about money; I’m talking about what makes a film work. There are a lot of crappy-ass movies that I really like and think work pretty well even though they aren’t great pieces…
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Film Review – Jodorowsky’s Dune
Early into Jodorowsky’s Dune we are introduced to a book. The size of this book is impressive, and what it holds might even be more so. Behind the concept art for a spaceship, which adorns the cover, is the untold version of a movie that…
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SXSW Film Review – Only Lovers Left Alive
Being out of the film festival stratosphere, I had never heard of Only Lovers Left Alive until it was announced as part of the SXSW Film Festival lineup. Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston play the main characters, and they are also vampires. Consider my interest…
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SXSW Film Review – The Raid 2: Berandal
Gareth Evans’ The Raid: Redemption (2011) was an exhilarating action thriller. Set within an apartment complex in Jakarta, we watched police officer Rama (Iko Uwais) fight his way through gangsters and drug dealers with non-stop ferocity. It reset the standard for how far action pictures…
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Film Review – Tim’s Vermeer
Where I went to art school, they didn’t actually teach you how to paint anything. You just kind of showed up and either already knew what you were doing or you just figured something out. (I was in the latter camp, fyi.) But that’s a…
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