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that's it. my year is ruined. last year was a shittttty year for movies, so i thought this year would be better. and it is, but the best movie of the year already happened.
REVIEWS OF THE DUCHESS: CHILDREN OF MEN
dear alfonso. you are now my favorite director. you have filled the hole that ang lee and terry gilliam have left behind. you now live in the temple that, in my teenaged years, used to worship tim burton and was so recently betrayed by m. night. i am older and wiser and i see that you are versitile and virtuous and will probably never disappoint me like those bastards. welcome to my heart.
the camera work is fucking amazing. gabe informed me that filmmakers out of mexico city first learn documentary-style shooting before anything else and it shows. the shots are long and cut together beautifully...the opening shot alone is jaw-dropping: you see people in a coffee shop, then clive comes in, buys coffee, the camera follows him out to the street, comes around the other side, and then you see the coffee shop behind him....in incident. i can't even tell you...
and the rest of the movie is just better from there. julianne moore's part is a complete suprise in it's execution and i'm going to go ahead and mark michael caine with brilliance.
the script is one of the best i've ever heard, it leaves off too much exposition from the characters and lets you infer storyline from visual cues. the ending is beautiful and simple.
but it's very. very. violent.
i only have one qualm with the whole thing, and it was a camera technique at one part that i didn't like. but. i'm not going to say anything about it, because i don't want anyone else to focus on it and let it ruin the scene for them. it was just a little thing anyway.
this is my oscar wish, that cuaron win best director. if the movie gets best picture or best screenplay instead, that's okay. but cuaron deserves it this year. (it was in limited release christmas day, so technically, it's up for 2006.)
best film of the year. right off the bat. 2007 is all downhill from here.
REVIEWS OF THE DUCHESS: CHILDREN OF MEN
dear alfonso. you are now my favorite director. you have filled the hole that ang lee and terry gilliam have left behind. you now live in the temple that, in my teenaged years, used to worship tim burton and was so recently betrayed by m. night. i am older and wiser and i see that you are versitile and virtuous and will probably never disappoint me like those bastards. welcome to my heart.
the camera work is fucking amazing. gabe informed me that filmmakers out of mexico city first learn documentary-style shooting before anything else and it shows. the shots are long and cut together beautifully...the opening shot alone is jaw-dropping: you see people in a coffee shop, then clive comes in, buys coffee, the camera follows him out to the street, comes around the other side, and then you see the coffee shop behind him....in incident. i can't even tell you...
and the rest of the movie is just better from there. julianne moore's part is a complete suprise in it's execution and i'm going to go ahead and mark michael caine with brilliance.
the script is one of the best i've ever heard, it leaves off too much exposition from the characters and lets you infer storyline from visual cues. the ending is beautiful and simple.
but it's very. very. violent.
i only have one qualm with the whole thing, and it was a camera technique at one part that i didn't like. but. i'm not going to say anything about it, because i don't want anyone else to focus on it and let it ruin the scene for them. it was just a little thing anyway.
this is my oscar wish, that cuaron win best director. if the movie gets best picture or best screenplay instead, that's okay. but cuaron deserves it this year. (it was in limited release christmas day, so technically, it's up for 2006.)
best film of the year. right off the bat. 2007 is all downhill from here.
