Gus Van Sant’s Milk is screening at MoMA as part of their 10th Anniversary Salute to Focus Features. Milk could arguably be called Van Sant’s Malcolm X, a historical drama of historical importance and a keystone work in the filmography of a fiercely original and occasionally frustrating filmmaker. This is what I wrote about Milk [...]
Archive for the ‘Drama’ Category
From The Archives: GRAN TORINO (2008).
Posted: February 1, 2012 in Badass Old Guys, Cars, Clint, Drama, Life, Movies (G), OpinionsTake my words with as big a helping of salt as you choose, since I have got to be the biggest Clint Eastwood fan this side of forty. I have found something worth remembering and studying within every entry of his directorial output, even in the ones I don’t happen to prefer, and if [...]
From The Archives: CHILDREN OF MEN (2006).
Posted: September 11, 2011 in Drama, Koreans, Movies (C), Sci-Fi, The Future#9. Children Of Men (2006) The year 2027. Women can no longer have babies. The youngest person in the world has just been shot down at the age of 18. The future is terrifyingly finite. That’s where Children of Men begins. In a profound and extremely relatable (to me, anyway) performance, Clive Owen plays a [...]
From The Archives: 25TH HOUR (2002).
Posted: September 10, 2011 in Crime, Drama, Movies (Number Titles), New York, Pretty GirlsContinuing my list of favorite movies from the last decade, here’s #2. 25th Hour (2002) This is a movie that warrants an entire essay. One day, I’ll give it one. In the meanwhile, my abbreviated commentary will have to do. Personally, I’m a filmgoer who tends to generally agree with what the mainstream defines as [...]
Overlooked By Oscar: NIGHT CATCHES US (2010).
Posted: March 18, 2011 in Drama, History, Movies (N), Music, ScreeningsLet’s take a moment to credit some of the lesser-heralded arts of movie-making, such as production design, set dressing, and costumes. Night Catches Us is set in Philadelphia in 1976, and looks it. The movie feels contemporary and believable, but also convincingly forty years ago. Let’s also compliment its cinematography – Night Catches Us has [...]
You don’t have to go far on the internet to know where I stand on Clint Eastwood. I’m as big a fan of him as a filmmaker as I am of him as an actor. I’m interested in his take on America, his take on humanity, and in his restless creative spirit. Clint never makes [...]
