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A Sense of Freedom: Filmmaker and Teacher Bart Weiss Talks About his Book "Smartphone Cinema"
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The best of "Spider-Man: No Way Home" reminded me why I used to love comic books, especially the ones about a boy named Peter Parker. There was a playful unpredictability to them that has often been missing from modern superhero movies, which feel so precisely calculated.
One of the gifts a movie lover can give another is the title of a wonderful film they have not yet discovered. Here are more than 300 reconsiderations and appreciations of movies from the distant past to the recent past, all of movies that I consider worthy of being called "great." - Roger Ebert
The opening title calls it "Dune Part 1" and while this two-and-a-half hour movie provides a bonafide epic experience, it's not coy about connoting that there's more to the story. Herbert's own vision corresponds to Villeneuve's own storytelling affinities to the extent that he apparently did not feel compelled to graft his own ideas to this work.
This review was filed from the premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. The film opens on March 25th.
This four-hour cut is the kind of brazen auteurist vision that Martin Scorsese was calling for when he complained (rightly) that most modern superhero movies don't resemble cinema as he's understood and valued it.
In Rodney Ascher's documentary "Room 237," four theorists attempt to explain the hidden messages in Stanley Kubrick's movie "The Shining." The ideas about what the movie is about range from the possible to the downright bizarre.
A moderately insightful critic, full-on Swiftie and all-around bon vivant, Peter Sobczynski, in addition to his work at this site, is also a contributor to The Spool and can be heard weekly discussing new Blu-Ray releases on the Movie Madness podcast on the Now Playing network.
The violence in this movie means to shock, and it does. Fleck's alienation in the early scenes evokes Travis Bickle's, but this movie is too chicken-livered to give Fleck Bickle's racism, although it depicts him mostly getting hassled by people of color in the first third.