Pretty interesting stuff, but ultimately this felt like a very long DVD featurette....which isn't a bad thing. I miss bonus features...
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Back in Time is a feature length documentary about Back to the Future. This film has interviews and experts and collectors and fans. It covers the films origins, influence, and the phenomenon surrounding the trilogy. Pretty interesting stuff, but ultimately this felt like a very long DVD featurette....which isn't a bad thing. I miss bonus features... 3/5
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Well now, this is something! This is a documentary about Alejandro Jodorowsky's attempt to adapt the Frank Hebert book Dune into a film, in the 1970s. The film has never been made, but nonetheless maintains legendary status in Hollywood and the World of Cinema. Jodorowsky envisioned an epic masterpiece that would star David Carradine, Mick Jagger, Salvador Dali, and Orson Welles, and count HR Giger and Jean Giraud amongst its impressive creative team. One can't help to get swept up in Jodorowsky's passion. This is a hugely enjoyable especially for cinephiles, fans of Lynch's Dune, or the book. 5/5 Middle of Nowhere is about a young nurse who drops out of medical school to stay nearby, while her husband is incarcerated. Then, 4 years into his 8 year sentence she meets a divorced bus driver and falls in love. This was stellar. David Oyelowo is magnetic. Emayatzy Corinealdi is brilliant as the wife, Ruby. This is a film by Ava DuVernay, who directed Selma, and its heavy and serious and sincere with just enough hope and light. Nothing schmaltzy or cheap here. More of this kind of stuff please! 5/5 Gloria is a Chilean film about an older divorcee who has a brief but complicated relationship with a former Naval officer. Aesthetically, this film has a lot of close ups and as such feels constricted and maybe even a bit claustrophobic. There are moments of space also, but the shifts are far more subtle than say, Xavier Dolan's stellar Mommy (2014). I loved this movie. It's a pretty quiet little film, and I like that. 4.5/5 |
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