Love that Jennifer Aniston.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
(500) days of summer
Marc Webb - 2009
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a very interesting actor. Love Zooey Deschanel. Odd film - watch for the surreal nod to B&S. Great use of the space-time continuum.
Friday, August 28, 2009
inglorious basterds
Quentin Tarantino - 2009
I didn't see either of the Kill Bill movies, and I thought that Jackie Brown was lame. But I loved Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs and absolutely loved this. It's a more mature, and yet still fun and interesting, film. I'm a big structure fan and I love a 5 act structure - my only venture into screenplay writing included a 5 act structure. The acting was amazing, and the opening - with the music, cinematography and pacing - is sublime.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
brokeback mountain
Ang Lee - 2005
I love Ang Lee (The Ice Storm is one of my all-time favorites), and had only seen this once before. First off - the cinematography and pacing are amazing. It's slow, it uses every last bit of that huge Wyoming sky. Heath Ledger builds his character so well, so gracefully. He is this generations James Dean.
Ang Lee really has a thing for America - in The Ice Storm he shows you the beautiful rural/suburban Connecticut that I remember from growing up (and look for Katie Holmes in one of her best roles!), in Brokeback he shows the beautiful landscape of Wyoming. It's interesting, when the story goes to Texas for Jack's scenes, he doesn't show any landscape. The only landscape that matters is the one they share, in Wyoming.
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