Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Politics, Pop Culture, Psychology, tagged Aaron Eckhart, Batman, Bruce Wayne, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, Comic Book Movies, Crime Saga, Crime Thrillers, DC Comics, Gary Oldman, Harvey Dent, Heath Ledger, James Gordon, Jonathan Nolan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Sequels, Superhero Movies, Terrorism, The Dark Knight, The Joker, Two Face on July 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Terror in the Knight, 22 July 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
Director Christopher Nolan has tapped into a cultural zeitgeist with his soaring Dark Knight. No other director has shown so much ambition while working within the context of such an iconic name brand belonging to popular culture. By building upon the excellent [...]
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Posted in Art, Art-house Cinema, Inspiration, Literature, Movie Reviews, Movies, Psychology, tagged David Lynch, Philosophy, Foreign Films, Film Classics, Film School, Criterion Collection, Ingmar Bergman, Persona, Fanny and Alexander, Swedish Films, Mulholland Drive, August Strindberg, A Dream Play, Dreams, Theater, Robert Schumann, Classical Music, Existentialism on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Anything can happen; all things are possible and plausible. Time and space do not exist: over a minute patch of reality imagination will weave its web and create fresh patterns…”
–August Strindberg, Preface to A Dream Play (1902)
This spring I arrogantly went through my own self taught film school where I explored critically for the [...]
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Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Angelina Jolie, James McAvoy, Michel Gondry, Be Kind Rewind, Wanted, Timur Bekmambetov, Jack Black on July 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It’s weird how one movie experience can affect another.
CAPTION: Yeah, pretty much, what the hell?
Over the July 4th weekend I rented Be Kind Rewind and brought it over to my brother’s place to watch. I had such high hopes for this flick. I think it’s amazing what director Michel Gondry was able to do with [...]
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Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Bad Movies, M. Night Shyamalan, Mark Whalberg, Philadelphia, The Happening, Thrillers, Zooey Deschanel on June 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
CAPTION: Run, run away from the bad director.
My Mood Ring Indicates Laughter, 17 June 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
Some mysterious “event” causes people in the Northeast to start killing themselves (loved the Philadelphia Zoo scene!) and forces an unhappy couple (Mark Whalberg and Zooey Deschanel) to work on their marriage problems lest [...]
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Posted in Art, Art-house Cinema, History, Inspiration, Movie Reviews, Movies, Psychology, tagged Carl Dreyer, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Catholocism, Criterion Collection, Danish Cinema, Film Classics, Film School, Foreign Films, French Heros, French History, Joan of Arc, Maria Falconetti, Mysticism, Religion, Richard Einhorn, Saint Joan, Saints, Silent Films, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Voices of Light on June 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Re-watching Carl Dreyer’s silent classic, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), was the final piece of my self-taught Spring Film School that started in April with The Third Man and continued in May and June with M, Metropolis, The Big Heat, The 400 Blows, The Innocents, Twelve Angry Men, Dog Day Afternoon, Citizen Kane and finally Dreyer’s film. One of [...]
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Posted in Art-house Cinema, Current Events, Movie Reviews, Movies, Politics, tagged Danai Gurira, Deportation, Detention Centers, Haaz Sleiman, Hiam Abbass, Illegal Immigration, New York City, Richard Jenkins, The Visitor, Thomas McCarthy on June 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
CAPTION: Haaz Sleiman and Danai Gurira call their agents demanding better scripts.
A Political Visitor, 9 June 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
*** This comment may contain spoilers ***
Thomas McCarthy’s second feature film had the potential to be a poignant human drama, but instead sacrifices the story for the message. The Visitor unfortunately turns [...]
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Posted in Art, Art-house Cinema, Movie Reviews, Movies, Travel, tagged Adventure, Beethoven, Beethoven's Seventh, Catinca Untaru, Fantasy, Independent Films, Justine Waddell, Karen Haacke, Lee Pace, Seventh Symphony, Silent Films, Stuntmen, Tarsem, Tarsem Singh, The Fall, Vanity Project on June 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
CAPTION: Mountains and water and trees, oh my! And funny costumes, too!
The Stuntman, 3 June 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
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The Fall opens with a disembodied symphony of black and white images done to the tune of Beethoven’s 7th where the beauty is in not fully understanding what [...]
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Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Action Adventure, Action Films, Cate Blanchett, David Koepp, Film Franchises, George Lucas, Harrison Ford, Indiana Jones, Janusz Kasminski, Karen Allen, Sequels, Serials, Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, Stunts, The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull on May 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
CAPTION: Cate Blanchett tells Harrison Ford, “YOU MUST RELIVE YOUR CHILDHOOD.”
Where Were the Dinosaurs?, 25 May 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
Nineteen years after the alleged Last Crusade, producer George Lucas, director Steven Spielberg, and over-the-hill star Harrison Ford reunite for a fourth Indiana Jones film with The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. [...]
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Posted in Art, Art-house Cinema, Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Orson Welles, Film Classics, Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane, William Randolph Hearst, Ballyhoo, Rosebud, RKO, Mercury Theater, Film School, Criterion Collection on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
This spring I continue to utilize my Netflix queue to take myself to “school” with film classics. Earlier in the month I finally sat down to watch Citizen Kane in its entirety for a critical review. Without further adieu…
CAPTION: Say, Charlie, you gotta name for that sled?
All That Ballyhoo!, 5 May 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher [...]
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Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Pop Culture, tagged Action Films, Comic Book Movies, Gwyneth Paltrow, Iron Man, Jeff Bridges, Jon Favreau, Marvel Comics, Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
CAPTION: Gwyneth Paltrow uses a military escort to pick up Robert Downey Jr. from rehab.
Adequate Cure for Cinematic Anemia, 6 May 2008
Author: David H. Schleicher from New Jersey, USA
The crown prince of America’s premier weapons manufacturer Tony Stark (a sober Robert Downey Jr.) grows a conscience after being captured by terrorists in Afghanistan and decides [...]
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