Most Hollywood films, take you on exciting thrilling car chasing gun fighting journeys where beautiful people meet and have sex with other beautiful people. And you get to go along for the ride. But afterwards you walk into the street, and back home to your apartment with your sick cat and your fat wife, and all of a sudden what you thought was an alright life seems pathetic and lame in comparison. Read more
About The Omnipresent Phillip Glass
Glass: A Portrait in Twelve Parts, a film produced and directed by Scott Hicks
This excellent documentary/interview film with and about Phillip Glass going down the Astroland roller coaster in Coney Island with a smile on his face. All those years of involvement with Buddhism and other spiritual traditions would seem to have paid off. But why subject one’s life to danger gratuitously? The question is neither asked nor answered. Glass claims not to be a Buddhist. Nevertheless he has a Buddhist teacher named Gelek Rinpoche and is on the boards of numerous Buddhist organizations including Tibet House and a magazine I get four times per year about Buddhist topics called Tricycle. The film features Chuck Close, the famous artist who paints portraits mostly in black dots that look like blown up photographs. Close has known Glass for many years[...] Read more
Hero: A Visually Stunning Old-Fashioned Crowd- and Government-Pleaser – by Susanne Lee
Posted by in Film Reviews | Reviews - (Comments Off)Hero, Zhang Yimou’s foray into wuxia, martial arts, marks a departure from both his earlier period dramas depicting feudal China, Red Sorghum and Raise the Red Lantern, and his contemporary urban stories, To Live and The Story of Qiu Jiu. Zhang takes a familiar tale, previously explored by his former fellow Fifth Generation director Chen … Read more
American Skin, 8 Mile, and the death of racial misconceptions
Posted by in Essays | Film Reviews | Reviews - (Comments Off)If Ely Wynton was wrapping up his cultural thesis American Skin during the first Oscar rush of the 2002-2003 season, he might’ve appended a chapter on the next big step by a major industry that brings a heel down on slices of whte-bread american life. The industry is Hollywood. The milestone is the film”8 mile”. The occasion is the first true showcase of the white-american sub-minority. That is, Caucasian-Americans youth feeling burdened of their whiteness where hip-hop and it’s preeminent blackness actually are the status quo. The”streets” of Detroit are one such place. The modern media’s concept of”cool” is another, if only figuratively.
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I like Stories with Bitches as Characters Lourdes Vázquez Translation by Enriqueta Carrington True bitches: the one who desires her progeny the one who abandons it the one who guards it jealously the one who despises it the one who kills the puppies the pack of mongrel bitches who wander around … Read more
The Colossus of New York: A City In Thirteen Parts
Posted by in Film Reviews | Reviews - (Comments Off)“The Colossus of New York: A City In Thirteen Parts” by Colson Whitehead, published by Doubleday, A Division of Random House, Inc., 2003, New York. 161 pp., © 2003 by Colson Whitehead (b. 1961). Gotham Tales review by Norman Douglas “To you, O Sun, the people of Dorian Rhodes set … Read more
“Chaos” Directed and written by Coline Serreau (in French, with English subtitles) Director of photography, Jean-Franois Robin Edited by Catherine Renault Music by Ludovic Navarre Production designer, Michle Abbe Produced by Alain Sarde Released by New Yorker Films Running time: 108 minutes. This film is not rated. Cast: Catherine Frot (HŽlne), Vincent Lindon … Read more
Film Review by Norman Douglas Caché Directed by: Michael Haneke Screenplay: Michael Haneke Cinematography: Christian Berger 2005 “What people do officially is nothing compared with what they do in secret. People usually associate creativity with works of art, but what are works of art alongside the creative energy displayed … Read more
Jennifer Dworkin’s prize-winning documentary is an honest and touching portrayal of three generations of a family that, to be sadly blunt, live in a place two steps beyond redemption. Read more
A surreal, depressing look into the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, told from a militant, overly intellectualized Palestinian perspective using wildly sardonic humor, brutally honest irony within a disjointed plot that at times is somewhat maddening but always surprising. Read more
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