Ignorance and Taste: Catching Up on Links
- How ignorant are you? Cinemarati recently asked its readers: “What’s your big, embarrassing, Never-Seen-It movie?”
Tagged: Links, Neko Case, Netflix, Self-Involvement, Star Wars
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The Dark Knight: Haiku Squared
Yet, while absorbing,
the movie is troublesome,
lesser than Begins.
The former – patient,
its arc elegant. This? A
relentless straight line.
Tagged: Batman, Christopher Nolan, Haiku, Poetry, Reviews, Superheroes, The Dark Knight
Fixing the God Machine
I anticipated finding Donnie Darko: The Director’s Cut a lesser film than its forebear; I thought writer/director Richard Kelly would use it mostly as an opportunity to try to explicate his impenetrable plot, and to impose his reading on a text that had been ambiguous to the point of beautiful inscrutability. And that’s exactly what he does. Here’s the funny thing: I liked this version nearly as much as the theatrical cut, but for very different reasons.
Box Office Power Rankings: November 16-18, 2007
Honestly and truly, I bear no antipathy toward Robert Zemeckis, although I wouldn’t want to sit through many of his movies, and even those I like are problematic at best. But I hoped fervently that something would prevent his Beowulf from leading the Box Office Power Rankings this week.
Words to Live by
It’s been linked to plenty over the past few days, but David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement address deserves to be read, in light of and in spite of his suicide.
Tagged: David Foster Wallace
Temptation’s Taunt
Ah, movies about child molesters. Why oh why aren’t there more of them? Probably for the same reason that there aren’t more films about obviously guilty people on death row: because under the cover of trying to illuminate serious social issues they’re naked attempts to humanize rightfully demonized people. The Woodsman doesn’t escape that trap entirely, but it’s surprisingly suspenseful with a strong set of characters.
Tagged: Dramas, Kevin Bacon, Nicole Kassell, Reviews, Sexual Abuse, The Woodsman
The Best Special Effect
Four years in the making, the documentary Winged Migration is beautiful to watch yet empty. For all the time, money, and effort spent filming migrating birds, would it have been too much to ask to bring an editor on-board to turn the result into something a bit more compelling?
Tagged: Documentaries, Reviews
Can the Left Find God?
A foolish person doesn’t recognize that one can learn much from opponents. So liberals have begun to understand that they need God on their side as much as the Christian Right does. The lesson from conservatives, said Rabbi Michael Lerner, is that it’s okay to base policy on faith and spiritual values, and it’s important to stand up for what you believe in. “When they come to a decision about what they believe in, they fight for it,” he said of the Christian Right in a recent interview. “And they’re willing to lose an election for the sake of what they believe in.”
Tagged: God, Interviews, Michael Lerner, Politics, The Left Hand of God
In Praise of Hate
What the hell is happening with the delayed polarization that Crash has engendered? Nobody got terribly worked up about Paul Haggis’ sincere, overstuffed race-relations drama when it was released in April. But as the buzz started building that Crash might (gasp!) win the Best Picture Oscar, indignation showed its ugly face.
Tagged: Academy Awards, Crash, Oscars, Paul Haggis
