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Mar 21, 2017 · 5 Reasons Why “The Third Man” Is The Best British Movie of All Time Posted on March 21, 2017 March 21, 2017 by Truman Hopper You know what the fellow said – in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance.
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Let’s cut right to the chase. Christopher Nolan is probably my favourite working director, and going five thousand words deep on his careerafter “Dunkirk” was an itch I’d been waiting to scratch for nearly a decade. “The Dark Knight” was my dorm-room poster movie — I’m part of the generation that explored films through the IMDb Top 250 growing up —...
At the 2017 Sundance premiere of Miguel Arteta’s “Beatriz at Dinner,”starring Salma Hayek, I found myself in shock at the reactions I heard from the mostly-white audience at the Eccles Theatre. I was watching a different movie, one that spoke to me as an immigrant, a Latino, and someone who’s felt out of place in spaces dominated by people who’ve n...
Like many writers, I tend to subconsciously disown anything I’ve written more than a few months ago, so I read this question, in practice, as what’s my favorite thing I’ve written recently. On that front, I’d say that the review of “Phantom Thread”that I wrote over at my blog comes the closest to what I most desire to do as a critic. I try to think...
I don’t know if it’s my best work, but a landmark in my life as a critic was surely a review of Chaplin’s “The Circus,” in time for the release of its restoration in 2010. I cherish this piece, written for Slant Magazine, for a number of reasons. For one, I felt deeply honored to shed more light on probably the least known and least respected of Ch...
No way would I dare to recommend any pieces of my own, but I don’t mind mentioning a part of my work that I do with special enthusiasm. Criticism, I think, is more than the three A’s (advocacy, analysis, assessment); it’s prophetic, seeing the future of the art from the movies that are on hand. Yet many of the most forward-looking, possibility-expa...
It’s a piece on two of my favorite films of 2017, “Lady Bird” and “Call Me By Your Name”,and about how their very different modes of storytelling speak to the different sorts of stories we tell ourselves. Objectively, I don’t know if this is my best work in terms of pure style and craft, but I do think it’s the most emblematic in terms of what I va...
My favorite piece of my own work is definitely “The Shape of Water’s” Strickland as the “Ur-American.”I’m proud of it because it required me to really take stock of all the things that Americans are taught from birth to take as given. That meant looking at our history of colonialism, imperialism, racism, anticommunism and really diving into how all...
This is tricky, but “Annihilation” is definitely my favorite piece of film criticism that I’ve written. My writing style is a combination of criticism and gifs, and sometimes the words are better than the gifs, and the gifs are better than the words. With “Annihilation,” I thought the balance was perfect. My favorite portion: “Lena is just an idea,...
I’m the worst judge of my own material; there’s almost nothing I’ve ever written that I don’t want to pick at and re-edit, no matter how much time has passed. But since, for me, the hardest part of film criticism is adequately praising a movie you truly love, then by default my best review would probably be of one of my favorite films of all time, ...
I can’t summon the strength to re-read it, but I remember thinking that my piece on grief and “Personal Shopper”was emblematic of how I hope to thread individual perspective into arts criticism.
Jun 28, 2001 · This is the very heart of the film. "Memento" is a movie largely about memory -- the ways in which it defines identity, how it's necessary to determine moral behavior and yet how terribly ...
Jul 18, 2017 · 4. Nolan’s clever use of visual clues enriches the movie’s narrative. From a very incriminating hammer in “Following” to that meddlesome spinning top in “Inception,” Nolan has always had a knack for filling his movies with objects that tell stories.
The book is always better than the movie, but I don't think so in this case. Not because the book was lacking, but because the movie was so good and didn't stray from the book. I never said this about any other book-to-movie adaptation, but if you watched the movie, there's not a whole lot more to be gained from reading the book.
Mar 6, 2024 · It’s the most ingenious movie because it’s a really interesting example of adaptation. You have this story that’s really about what happens in two hours and 40 minutes after the iceberg hits, [James Cameron] decides to make a movie about the voyage, and his problem is to make the movie about the voyage interesting.
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Jul 20, 2015 · No wonder film students love Citizen Kane. Watch it and you’ve ticked off a whole term’s work in a single afternoon. The script bursts with quotable one-liners and exchanges. But don’t ...
