[3] May 9, 2012
Fight movies tend to follow the same well-worn paths. Happily Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior [4] tosses in a few welcome changeups. And it’s been so well acted that even the familiar somehow seems fresh.
[3] Fight movies tend to follow the same well-worn paths. Happily Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior [4] tosses in a few welcome changeups. And it’s been so well acted that even the familiar somehow seems fresh.
[6] You’d have to go back to 2001: A Space Odyssey to find a motion picture as inspiring and divisive as Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life [7]. It's a story of one family, but in fact it attempts to distill the very experience of being human.
[9] Steven Spielberg’s The Adventures of Tintin [10] has so many jaw-dropping moments of visual splendor that it takes a while to realize that there’s really nothing much of interest here except the jaw-dropping visual splendor.
[12] If Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol [13] feels like a live-action version of a cartoon, it only stands to reason. The man behind the camera is animator Brad Bird, who gave us some of the smartest and most ambitious animated features of recent years.
[15] Steven Spielberg’s War Horse [16] is big and gorgeous in ways that reminds of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago. But while it often delighted my eye, it felt empty. Not even a deep cast of British actors could bring it to emotional life.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-warrior-2011
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Tom+Hardy%22+title:%22Warrior%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17186#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-tree-life-2011
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Terrence+Malick%22+title:%22The+Tree+of+Life%22
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17097#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-adventures-tintin-2011
[10] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Steven+Spielberg%22+title:%22The+Adventures+of+Tintin%22
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/17073#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-2011
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Brad+Bird%22+title:%22Ghost+Protocol%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16961#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-war-horse-2011
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Steven+Spielberg%22+title:%22War+Horse%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16857#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=5
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=2
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=3
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=4
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=7
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=8
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=9
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=10
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=13