Category: 2013

Blue is the warmest color

12/3/2013

If "We all experience pleasure differently" and "Everything is tragedy, or ends in tragedy" then what's left?
What is left is "Infinite tenderness" and sensuality" That describes Blue is the Warmest Color.
Yes, I know, it has a 10 minute long lesbian scene and a few other scenes that are provocative in nature, but the film also has a sexual tenderness that is seldom seen in teen relationships. The question is, why are we provoked?

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Evaluation of the films on Spike Lee's "Essential list"

10/28/2013

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BAD LIEUTENANT
Harvey Keitel is great in it and the directing is good as well. The cinematography resembles the 1970's 'wash away' look that is unattractive to say the least. Not worthy of essential list though.

RASHOMON
One of the best films ever made. This is the film that opened up Japanese culture to European and American audiences. Directing is outstanding. Acting is great as well, but not according to our Western standards. Don't miss it.

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Gravity

10/5/2013

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Alfonso Cuarón is one of the 5 best directors of our time. As writer, producer, director and co-editor, he is the sole artistic and creative mind behind "Gravity."

The film is the best Sci-fi film since "Space Odyssey" but with a superior sound mix. It's ironic; the superior sound mix comes not always from what we hear, but from its absence. Our identification with the main character, Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), has more authenticity when we hear as she hears. What I'm referencing is the muffled sound of the tools that she works with. Further, the suspense heightens when she/we don't hear the collisions that are going on in the background of the image.

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Spike Lee and the missing link in his "essential films" list

9/8/2013

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After reading Spike Lee's list of "essential films" I couldn't help by smile sardonically. Finally, I thought that I should comment on it. Reason being, I think there are essential films missing in this "essential list"; Films that are "indispensable" for any begging filmmaker. Spike Lee included some amazing films, but about 50% of them are uninteresting in any shape or form, and are purely inferior to the silent films.

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Kon-Tiki

5/24/2013

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I just saw the best film of 2012. Kon-Tiki is not only the best foreign film of last year, but it's the best film period. It grabs you and takes you on a journey few films can - forgetting where you are and caring about the characters.

It also begs the question; where have all the heros gone?

Where are the real heroes that made this small place called Earth a better place for all of us? It seems technology has wiped them out.

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The Place Beyond the Pines

5/9/2013

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You should definitely see "The Place Beyond the Pines." I was not impressed with Derek Cianfrance's "Blue Valentine" so I was debating if I wanted to spend 2 hours and 20 minutes watching something I won't like, but … I didn't even feel the time passing. Besides being more mature work, Cianfrance pulls off a gutsy move. This script could never have been produced in Hollywood, its too risky. (contains spoilers).

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Blue is the warmest color

Evaluation of the films on Spike Lee's "Essential list"

Gravity

Spike Lee and the missing link in his "essential films" list

Kon-Tiki

The Place Beyond the Pines

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