This will probably get people up in arms but it’s true that there are two kinds of movies. Last year’s battle for Best Picture showed the dividing line quite clearly. Our need for comfort and answers often overrides our need to think. We seek comfort from movies, someone to tell us it’s all going to okay. Life is suffering, as the buddhists would...
Monthly Archives: November 2011
First rave for War Horse comes from the Telegraph: Ever since Saving Private Ryan, the work of director Steven Spielberg has been hit-or-miss. Finally, our wait for the return of his classic touch is at an end with War Horse, both a model of cinema done right and – even more importantly – the epitome of Spielberg done right. Seeing something as brutal, terrible and...