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 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 Book Reviews, Book to Film Adaptations, Books, Literature, Movie Reviews, Movies, Psychology, tagged Horror Films, Psychological Thrillers, Ghost Stories, Film Classics, Henry James, The Turn of the Screw, Repression, Freud, The Innocents, Jack Clayton, Freddie Francis, Deborah Kerr, Victorian Era, Film School, Novellas on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Henry James’ classic novella from 1898, “The Turn of the Screw” opens with a group of friends discussing ghost stories:
“I quite agree–in regard to Griffin’s ghost, or whatever it was-that its appearing first to the little boy, at so tender an age, adds a particular touch. But it’s not the first occurrence of its charming [...]
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Posted in Movie Reviews, Movies, Psychology, tagged Halley Berry, Benicio Del Toro, David Duchovny, Things We Lost in the Fire, Susanne Bier, Grief, Addiction, Drama, Recovery on May 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In 2004 it was Birth. In 2005 it was The New World. In 2006 it was Marie Antoinette. Things We Lost in the Fire was the most unfairly dismissed and overlooked film of 2007. Most audiences go to movies for escapism, and Things We Lost in the Fire flew in the face of that notion and [...]
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Posted in Art, Art-house Cinema, History, Movie Reviews, Movies, Politics, Psychology, tagged Film Classics, Film Noir, Film School, Fritz Lang, German Expressionism, Group Think, Individualism, Jungian Archetypes, M, Nazi Germany, Peter Lorre, Propoganda, Symbolism, Weimar Republic on April 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
With nothing worthwhile at the cineplex this spring, I’ve been using my Netflix queue to catch up with many of the classics I studied in film class but never watched as a complete whole. Fritz Lang’s M is one of those classics that looks great on your shelf, but you might only pop in the [...]
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Posted in Art-house Cinema, History, Literature, Movie Reviews, Movies, Psychology, Travel, tagged Belgium, Brendan Gleeson, Bruges, Clemence Poesy, Colin Farrell, Crime Thriller, Dark Comedy, David Mamet, Dwarves, Graham Greene, Hit Men, In Bruges, Martin McDonagh, Midgets, Ralph Fiennes on February 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Clemence Poesy says “oui oui” to a vaction…In Bruges.
Just when I was about lose faith in film due to the muck and mire currently overstuffing multiplexes and DVD shelves, In Bruges comes along, out of nowhere, to restore my religion. First-time feature length director/screenwriter Martin McDonagh hasn’t crafted an earth shaking masterpiece, but he has a made a film [...]
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Earlier this month The Thief Maker was reviewed by Floyd M. Orr, an author of several non-fiction titles who reviews exclusively books published by iUniverse on his blog under the penname, Tabitha. Orr’s reviews are of special note for authors who have used iUniverse’s self-publishing services as he thoughtfully critiques not only the content and [...]
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Posted in Art-house Cinema, Arts and Entertainment, Awards, Book to Film Adaptations, History, Inspiration, Movie Reviews, Movies, Politics, Pop Culture, Psychology, tagged Cult Films/TV, David Lynch on June 26, 2007 | 14 Comments »
AFI (the American Film Institute) recently updated their list of the 100 greatest movies of all time.
Not to be outdone, I present to you my list of the greatest films of all time. You will notice their number one pick is absent from my list…however, there are some shared views. During my first 27 years [...]
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The Thief Maker A Novel by D.H. Schleicher (iUniverse Press)
Review by Kent Manthie for Reviewer Magazine
It’s been said that the events of September 11, 2001 forever altered America in profound ways as well as the individual psyches of its people. Most Americans, but especially those who were directly affected, can chart their lives as “before [...]
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