[3] Contagion [4], from the master storyteller Steven Soderbergh, is about a killer flu pandemic that puts mankind on the ropes. It paints a grim but fully-detailed picture of how we’d react in such circumstances. It’s not pretty.
[6] J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 [7] is a riff on all those Spielberg [8]-inspired films from the ‘80s in which suburban kids got sucked into other-worldly adventures.
[10] It’s one thing to make a raunchy comedy. It’s another to tell a serious story about someone coping with a life-threatening disease. 50/50 [11] puts those two genres together so that they complement rather than cancel each other.
[13] Some films are lavish eight-course meals. Others are pastries. Midnight in Paris [14] is of the second variety, but since it was made by Woody Allen and unfolds in the most evocative city on Earth, it’s a most satisfying pastry.
[16] First-time features don’t get a whole lot more assured than Margin Call [17], an incisive, biting look at the Wall Street mindset and machinations that led to our current economic doldrums.
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-contagion-2011
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Steven+Soderbergh%22+title:%22Contagion%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16157#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-super-8-2011
[7] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Abrams%22+title:%22Super+8%22
[8] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000229/
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16118#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-5050-2011
[11] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Jonathan+Levine%22+title:%2250+50%22
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/16041#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-midnight-paris-2011
[14] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Woody+Allen%22+title:%22Midnight+in+Paris%22
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15978#comment-form
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/new-dvd-margin-call-2011
[17] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Chandor%22+title:%22Margin+Call%22
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15967#comment-form
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=8
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=5
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=6
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=7
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=10
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=11
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=12
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14313?page=13
