Posted by moviegeek916 on August 23, 2012 · Leave a Comment
True Romance (1993) – Quentin Tarantino is hailed (rightly, in my opinion) as one of the greatest directors working in film today. While nowadays he’ll spend years working on Django Unchained or Inglourious Basterds before actually making it, back in the day he had more scripts than he had time to film himself. Wisely choosing … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on August 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Savages (2012) – So Oliver Stone is known primarily for political films like JFK, Nixon, and W. Or films with a message like Platoon or Wall Street. But sometimes Stone just goes wild and crazy and that’s when he gives us movies like U-Turn or, more to the point, Natural Born Killers. Natural Born Killers was … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on July 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Batman Forever (1995) – On the multi-part making-of documentary from the Batman 1989-1997 Anthology DVD box set, one “comic scholar” posits that the different styles the movies have adopted reflect different periods of the comic book which has, understandably for a series that’s been going 73 years and counting, gone through many different stylistic phases. It … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on January 20, 2012 · 1 Comment
Talk Radio (1988) – This is the second of two films I saw in December based on a play by Eric Bogosian. Like subUrbia, the film was made by a director who I tend to be rather fond of (Richard Linklater for subUrbia, Oliver Stone for Talk Radio). Sadly both films I’ve found a little … Continue reading →
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Posted by moviegeek916 on September 24, 2011 · Leave a Comment
I Am (2010) — Tom Shadyac, the director of Patch Adams, directed a documentary about interconnectivity. I feel it went about as well as you might infer from that first sentence. Firstly, Shadyac should not narrate a movie. I get that he wants to frame this as a realization he had following a life-changing experience, … Continue reading →
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Persistence of Vision 