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Tag Archives: Christopher Nolan
Dunkirk
Dunkirk is extraordinary. It’s a film, yes (a real film, but more on that later), but also an event and an experience. It should be seen in IMAX if at all possible, as with much of director Christopher Nolan’s previous … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films
Tagged A Bridge Too Far, Agent Carter, Alejandro Iñárritu, Alfonso Cuaron, Ang Lee, Bridge of Spies, Broadchurch, Brokeback Mountain, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, Damien Chazelle, Dunkirk, Fionn Whitehead, Gravity, Harry Styles, Inception, Intolerance, James D'Arcy, Kenneth Branagh, La La Land, Lawrence of Arabia, Life of Pi, Mad Max: Fury Road, Mark Rylance, Mrs. Miniver, Richard Attenborough, The Dark Knight Rises, The Revenant, Tom Hardy, Will Attenborough
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Judgment at Nuremburg and A Man for All Seasons: The Cinema of Conscience
When I teach my students about editing, I make sure to point out that it has a dual power—to both contrast and compare. Classic scenes of violence cut with scenes of a holy rite (The Godfather, Part One) or violence … Continue reading
Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films
Tagged "Tout le monde a ses raisons", A Man for All Seasons, Christopher Nolan, conscience, Fred Zinneman, Jean Renoir, Judgment at Nuremburg, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Montgomery Clift, morality, Nazi, Paul Scofield, Priceline, Richard Widmark, right and wrong, Spencer Tracy, Stanley Kramer, Star Trek, Third Reich, William Shatner, Wolf Hall
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Interstellar
I haven’t seen plain old Interstellar yet. But I did attend Interstellar: The Imax Experience, which is likely a different animal than the non-Imax version. Seeing—and hearing—the film in this format was as close to sampling Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk as I … Continue reading
