Guy Ritchie films

Call for Chapters - ReFocus: The Films of Guy RitchieThe career of Guy Ritchie encompasses an eclectic selection of films across a number of genres. His most noted work is in the arena of the gangster film, spanning from 1995’s The Hard Case to 2019’s The Gentleman, and evidences a journey from genre-defining texts (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, 1998), through critical disappointments (Revolver, 2005)attempted returns to form (RockNRolla, 2008) and recent more successful reinventions o...

Something Old - New - Borrowed - Autofictional Film

From High on Films blogThere’s a real thrill in watching a film bend style and form, both captivating and surprising in using a mix of techniques. Even if the narrative ground it covers may seem featureless and generic at first glance, the film offsets expectations by infusing familiar templates with a dash of innovation in its aesthetic choices. What could have been easily predictable and dull turns exciting and invigoratingly fresh. This is what Argentinian filmmaker Hernan Rosselli accompl...

Living Through Words - Ethan Hawke on His Career - Poetry - Wildcat

By-the-books biopics are a dime a dozen and often result in a shallow portrait of their subject. But every once in a while you'll get a filmmaker whose film's unconventional form perfectly aligns with the singular talent at its heart. Such is the case with co-writer and director Ethan Hawke's "Wildcat," starring his daughter Maya Hawke as writer Flannery O'Connor, whose sardonic Southern Gothic humor elevated the ordinary lives of the characters in her stories to otherworldly and grotesque he...

John Mulaney hilariously explains entire Field Of Dreams plot on Oscars stage

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Anatomy of a Fall

TIFF 2023 | Anatomy of a Fall (Justine Triet, France) — Special Presentations By Aurélie Godet. Published in Cinema Scope #95 (Summer 2023). Have you ever sat in front of a large poster depicting the human body without its skin? One muscle gets entangled into another, the precision and complexity of their web apparent in the areas that are most crucial for movement, but with the face on top of this transparent carcass looking very much alive. One can imagine that Justine...

Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoes

Clip source: Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoes Priscilla review - Bluebeard suede shoesSofia Coppola on whatever happened to the teenage dreamby Hugh Barnes Tuesday, 02 January 2024 Sofia Coppola knows a thing or two about teenage girldom. Like many of her other characters – in The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Somewhere and Marie Antoinette – the subject of her latest film, Priscilla Presley, is an ingenue living in a gilded cage and surrounded by lavish boredom. It hardly mat...

Woefully Neglected and Partially Unfilmable - Creations of Alasdair Gray

"Gray’s idiom may be modern, but it embraces many traditional things; not only autobiographical realism, but low comedy, afterlife fantasy, scattershot satire, nightmarish allegory, self-referential metafiction, tender eroticism, lunatic scholarship and profuse literary borrowings." —David Pringle on Gray’s debut novel Lanark: A Life in Four Parts (1981)Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels (1988)In 1951, the Scottish novelist and artist Alasdair Gray published a short story in the now defu...

George Lucas and the challenges of narrative in the Star Wars Throne Room scene

George Lucas and the challenges of narrative in the Star Wars Throne Room scene https://youtube.com/watch?v=xhAKJQsCsdg

Last House on the Left

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 The Last House on the Left (review) See all of The Last House on the Left, there is 1 more in this node. (review) by JD Sat Oct 03 2009 at 18:00:16 To avoid fainting, keep repeating "It's only a movie... It's only a movie...." A pair of teenage girls encounters a group of brutal, sadistic killers, led by a maniac named Krug.1 After Krug and his deranged band torture, molest, dismember, and kill the girls, they take refuge in the t...

George A. Romero's Most Underrated Film Isn't Even About Zombies

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James Quandt on Jean-Luc Godard

IN HIS FINAL YEARS, Jean-Luc Godard repeatedly pronounced his latest film his last, then made another. He had bidden farewell to cinema countless times throughout his career—famously proclaiming his Week-end the "fin du cinéma" in 1967—even as he fed rumors of new works, including, most recently, films titled Drôles de guerres (Funny Wars) and Scénario (Script), one of them consisting of still images in the manner of Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962). At the end of what was truly his termin...

It’s Going to Be Epic - The Oral History of James Cameron

Skip to main content Filed under: Oral History "It’s Going to Be Epic": The Oral History of James Cameron From his early days as a special effects assistant to revolutionizing...

Commenting on Hollywood From Within Hollywood

Universal Pictures/Ringer illustration The new movie documenting two female journalists’ investigation into Harvey Weinstein is thorough and at times even powerful. But how do you reconcile the fact that Weinstein’s behavior was enabled by the silence of Hollywood with that same industry’s impulse to make a film about his demise? Once Harvey Weinstein’s crimes—and the larger picture of a system that allowed them to persist—became public, the film industry didn’t wait long to sta...

Old - the film - M. Night Shyamalan

'Old' Review: M. Night Shyamalan's Latest Is A Wacky, Weird Hot Mess – And Fun, Too By Chris Evangelista/July 22, 2021 9:00 am EDT You've got to hand it to M. Night Shyamalan – he's trying, damn it! The movie industry is approaching a precipice. In fact, it might have already gone over the cliff. Wh...

The Personal Connection Behind M. Night Shyamalan's Constant Bruce Willis Casting

The Personal Connection Behind M. Night Shyamalan's Constant Bruce Willis Casting Buena Vista Pictures By Matthew Bilodeau/May 24, 2022 9:23 am EDT No matter what you think of M. Night Shyamalan as a filmmaker, the one thing you can't deny is the man has ambition. Do you know how talented you have to be when your fir...

10 Scorsese Trademarks In Goodfellas

10 Scorsese Trademarks In Goodfellas | ScreenRant https://screenrant.com/goodfellas-martin-scorsese-trademarks/amp/From voiceover narration to soundtrack needle-drops, Goodfellas has many of the tropes and trademarks that define Martin Scorsese's directorial style.

Matrix - The - as a transgender allegory

Flinging 21st-century action films into total chaos, the 1999 science fiction film The Matrix suggested a new era for the genre of gun-slinging, action hero cinema with a brand new way of approaching filmmaking from both a narrative and technological level. Though, perhaps more than its legacy as an action film, The Matrix should be more widely recognised for its confirmed transgender allegory.  When The Matrix was released in 1999, sisters Lana and Lilly Wachowski publicly identified as...

The Death of the Editor: Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch"

There is a moment, deep within the maze of Wes Anderson’s latest film, when art takes on the power to set a prisoner free. We are in France, in the time of de Gaulle (or someone like him). At the police station in the town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright) has been in a holding cell called the Chicken Coop for some days. An anonymous American, still in the eveningwear from the clandestine gay bar where he was picked up, his only contact is a number on the polite rejection le...

Call Me by Your Name's Director Defends Straight Casting, No Nudity

Ad filmCall Me by Your Name's Director Defends Straight Casting, No NudityLuca Guadagnino stood by his decision to cast Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer in the iconic gay parts. BY Daniel Reynolds Monday, September 14, 2020 - 13:45 The director of Call Me By Your Name has defended his decision to cast straight actors as the film's gay leads. Luca Guadagnino, in a Friday interview with The Independent promoting his new Salvatore Ferragamo biopic, Shoemaker of Dream...

Isn’t Everything Autobiographical?: Ethan Hawke In Nine Films And A Novel by Marya Gates

When asked during his first ever on-camera interview if he’d like to continue acting, a young Ethan Hawke replied, "I don’t know if it’s going to be there, but I’d like to do it." He then gives a guileless shrug of relief as the interview ends, wiping imaginary sweat off his brow. The simultaneous fusion of his nervous energy and poised body language will be familiar to those who’ve seen later interviews with the actor. The practicality and wisdom he exudes at such a young age would prove to ...

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THE TWISTED FEMMES FATALES OF CHRISTOPHER NOLAN | AESTHETICS FOR BIRDS

THE TWISTED FEMMES FATALES OF CHRISTOPHER NOLAN June 1, 2014 by aestheticsforbirds 5 Comments What follows is a guest post by Andrew Kania. Looking at the plots of Christopher Nolan’s films, you might worry about his attitude towards women. At the end of his first feature-length film, Following (1998), the only female character ("The [unnamed] Blonde") is murdered with a hammer by her gangster boyfriend. In Nolan’s first mainstream movie, the revenge thriller Me...

Philosopher AI - What is the literary significance of a missing finger?

Philosopher AI - What is the literary significance of a missing finger?SourceURL: https://philosopherai.com/philosopher/what-is-the-literary-significance-of-a-missing-fin-0ab935 Philosopher AINew topicWhat is the literary significance of a missing finger?➹ Share ⟳ Try againFirstly, I have read the work of the philosopher Edmund Burke. He speaks about how people act and perceive one another in society. His theories on human nature derive from a basis of experience as well as observation.29 Aug...

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The Philosophy of Terrence Malick

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