The Green Hornet (12A)
(Michel Gondry, 2011, Us) Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Tom Wilkinson. 119 mins
It's not going to give the Dark Knight a run for his money, but this unfancied vigilante movie is at least unpretentious, fun and well-lit – more like the light knight. Rogen's questionable charm and uneven writing skills just about power the shambolic "spoilt slacker turns crusader for justice" yarn (Waltz is another show-stealing baddie); Gondry provides some great action scenes (relying on Jay Chou's Kato rather than Rogen), a few of his trademark flourishes, and a very nice car …
Blue Valentine (15)
(Derek Cianfrance, 2010, Us) Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel. 112 mins
After so many gimmicky romcoms over the years, it's refreshing to see a straightforward look at relationships. It switches between the happy beginnings and miserable ending of a damaged, hard-up couple, and leaves us to work out what went wrong in between.
(Michel Gondry, 2011, Us) Seth Rogen, Jay Chou, Cameron Diaz, Christoph Waltz, Tom Wilkinson. 119 mins
It's not going to give the Dark Knight a run for his money, but this unfancied vigilante movie is at least unpretentious, fun and well-lit – more like the light knight. Rogen's questionable charm and uneven writing skills just about power the shambolic "spoilt slacker turns crusader for justice" yarn (Waltz is another show-stealing baddie); Gondry provides some great action scenes (relying on Jay Chou's Kato rather than Rogen), a few of his trademark flourishes, and a very nice car …
Blue Valentine (15)
(Derek Cianfrance, 2010, Us) Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel. 112 mins
After so many gimmicky romcoms over the years, it's refreshing to see a straightforward look at relationships. It switches between the happy beginnings and miserable ending of a damaged, hard-up couple, and leaves us to work out what went wrong in between.
- 1/15/2011
- by The guide
- The Guardian - Film News
By Arthur Tiersky - August 9, 2010
Filmmaker Ari Taub's "Last Letters from Monte Rosa" is about as low impact a war movie as they come, a roughly eighty minute-long drama that eschews the you-are-there intensity of "Saving Private Ryan" or "Das Boot" (the latter clearly a thematic influence) for the more relaxed, episodic feel of Samuel Fuller's "The Big Red One."
Like "Boot" and "Letters from Iwo Jima," “Letters” takes on the formidable challenge of humanizing the nominal villains of that war, namely, the Germans and the Italians. But most refreshing is the revelation of Italy as a country divided against itself during this time—the enemy on the ground is not the Allied forces, but the partisan Italian villagers who are rebelling against the German occupation and Mussolini's rule. This creates a difficult conflict of interest for the Italian soldiers, led by war-weary lieutenant Gianini (the rugged Fabio Sartor,...
Filmmaker Ari Taub's "Last Letters from Monte Rosa" is about as low impact a war movie as they come, a roughly eighty minute-long drama that eschews the you-are-there intensity of "Saving Private Ryan" or "Das Boot" (the latter clearly a thematic influence) for the more relaxed, episodic feel of Samuel Fuller's "The Big Red One."
Like "Boot" and "Letters from Iwo Jima," “Letters” takes on the formidable challenge of humanizing the nominal villains of that war, namely, the Germans and the Italians. But most refreshing is the revelation of Italy as a country divided against itself during this time—the enemy on the ground is not the Allied forces, but the partisan Italian villagers who are rebelling against the German occupation and Mussolini's rule. This creates a difficult conflict of interest for the Italian soldiers, led by war-weary lieutenant Gianini (the rugged Fabio Sartor,...
- 8/9/2010
- by Screen Comment
- Screen Comment
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