If you blended Strike (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925), Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933), some Busby Berkeley choreography, The Hollywood Review of 1929 (Charles Reisner), the class and sophistication of Casablanca, Citizen Kane (Orson Wells, 1941), and Celebrity (Woody Allen, 1998) you would most definitely end up with The Artist (Michael Hazanavicus, 2011). I feel [...]
Tags: #Festival, Bernice Bejo, Black and White, Cannes, film, Jean Dujardin, Silent film, Talkies, The Artist
Oh Lars! You have done it again. Melancholia (2011, Lars Von Trier) feels like an Americanized Antichrist (2009, Lars Von Trier). Both films deal with evil, relationships, nature and forces of nature that are evil. Melancholia opens with beautifully composed classical music seeming to be conducting the sequence of shots rolling in extreme slow motion [...]
Tags: Alexander Skarsgaard, Antichist, Arthouse film, Calgary Movies, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Danish Film, film, Kiefer Sutherland, Kirstin Dunst, Lars Von Trier, Melancholia, Review, yyc
