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It is amazing how many people are surprisingly illiterate about film," said Associate Dean of Student Life and Director of the Bryan Center Peter Coyle. Coyle sees film as the major literature of our time, but laments the fact that so many students go through college without ever seeing the truly important movies-be they classics or modern masterpieces.
Spike Lee loves his city, but unlike most of his fellow New York filmmakers, Lee has always refrained from over-exaggerating the positive attributes of it. Through his carefully restrained camera, New York City seethes both with love and rage; Spike understands better than anyone that his hometown's true charm lies in its gritty reality. As one of the first films to live and breathe in post-Sept. 11 New York, 25th Hour serves as a brilliant tribute to a surviving metropolis.
Martin Scorsese's ambitious epic has flaws, most notably its historical inaccuracies, but nothing can derail this finely crafted freight train of a movie. In time, Gangs of New York will surely prove to be one of the most enduring films of our time, but maybe not for obvious reasons:
Science/Fantasy
Bob Crane had it all: a wife, three kids and the lead role on Hogan's Heroes, a popular 1960s TV show. Then he met John Carpenter, an audio/ video equipment salesman with a voracious appetite for women. Something within Crane snapped, and Auto Focus tells the story of his disastrous lifestyle and resulting murder. This film never truly comes into focus, however, and the result is a disappointingly mediocre piece of shallow storytelling.
I had a ridiculous grin on my face for much of this past weekend, and it wasn't because of the embarrassing and often comical invasion of parents on campus. No, my happiness was induced by a 90-minute experience inside a movie theater where I saw Adam Sandler act for the first time in my life.
Well folks, you can Ecks this movie off your list of films to see this fall, unless you want to go Ballistic, in which case I Severely recommend it. At first I wasn't sure why anyone would name a movie after an adjective, but after 30 car explosions and about 30,000 bullets, the name Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever seems to make a little more sense.
orget the galaxy far, far away; forget spiderwebs in the streets of New York; forget the alien landing strips in rural Pennsylvania; and please forget would-be spies with mojo--the real action this summer took place in a region of the world few of us have ever seen outside the pages of National Geographic. The Fast Runner: Atanarjuat was produced by and set among the native people of northern Canada, but its story is timeless--an epic tale of love and deceit that most Hollywood directors can only dream of creating.
As the diminutive Yoda rounds a dark corner and ignites his lightsaber at the end of Star Wars Episode II, audiences around the world gasp for air at the excitement of the moment. The final lightsaber duel in Attack of the Clones represents the culmination of many years of anticipation by Star Wars fans--a moment that sadly cannot save a dying franchise.
The worst thing an action movie can do to undermine its own success is to deny its own identity. We see it all too often: a film so self-conscious about its limited scope that it resorts to trite dialogue and terribly false emotions. But what most filmmakers apparently don't realize is that we moviegoers don't always need to be taught a lesson. No one in his right mind would go to a pure action film expecting deep truths or moral answers, yet many movies still pretend to show us these things.
Chances are, you may be a Dan the Automator fan without even knowing it. DJ/producer Dan Nakamura's beats have been permeating the airwaves since this summer on several hit songs from the Gorillaz's self-titled debut, but he's also collaborated with the likes of Kool Keith, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, and, most recently, with Mike Patton.
War is filled with inherent contradictions, and these hypocrisies are addressed--often quite effectively--in Gregory Hoblit's new film, Hart's War. Based on the novel by John Katzenbach, Hart's War takes place in a Nazi POW camp during World War II in the winter of 1945. The film follows the struggle of Lt. Thomas Hart (Colin Farrell) as he is forced to defend a black officer falsely accused of murder.
How many shades of gray can possibly fit into one picture? The big-screen adaptation of E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News laboriously ponders that question as it fails to address any others that it raises. The result is another annual Oscar-minded Miramax release that lives up to its pedigree by falling short of saying anything meaningful.
