Monthly Archives: July 2011
“Let’s take another swing at that Salvation Boulevard,” somebody must’ve said… Though this one is better, I’m now starting to feel like there’s a layer to humor here that’s eluding me. I really want to like this movie because the novel was thought-provoking and there’s a lot of likable talent involved with the adaptation. ...
Some of our Republican readers have noted a presumed (ha) liberal bias on the site, and questions have sometimes come up in discussion wondering about the paucity of quality documentaries by conservatives. Whither the non-liberal filmmakers? Well, here ya go. And yes, that’s really the actual genuine poster after the cut. No kidding. There’s a meaningful...
@CineVue and @Raindance tweet links to a great resource at raindance.org where you can read and download 8 scripts by Christopher Nolan — Following, Memento, The Prestige, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, Inception and The Keys to the Street (unproduced). Production notes and screenplay analysis on selected titles are also available. The site hosts pages...
(thanks to The Film Doctor) Salon’s Andrew O’Herir calls Rapt a “Hitchcockian fable.” The ice-blond “good wife,” Françoise (Anne Consigny, in a classic Grace Kelly part), is in many respects the central character of “Rapt,” and the principal victim of the kidnapping. She is forced to deal with the police, who suspect the...
I’ll put “Cuba’s first horror film” in quotes because that’s how it’s being sold. I find the claim hard to believe — but when I tried to find another Cuban horror film, I stumbled across this essay: The Cuban horror film does not exist because it has been explicitly prohibited by the government. Genre films, which would include...