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Translatable Images: Zero Dark Thirty

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Trying to figure out exactly how I feel about films and my own cinematic tastes. View my complete profile. Saturday, January 19, 2013. Zero Dark Thirty, 2012. Everyone seems to have an opinion on this, so why shouldn't I? First off: I'm not sure how this advocates torture. Because it works? Well, does it really. In a scene at a cafeteria at CIA headquarters, Maya a a chat with the CIA director (James Gandolfini, who is clearly supposed to be Leon Panetta, now the Secretary of Defense). When asked how...

Translatable Images: June 2010

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Trying to figure out exactly how I feel about films and my own cinematic tastes. Get Him to The Greek. Truffaut vs. Godard. View my complete profile. Thursday, June 24, 2010. Iron Man 2, 2010. Being pretty late to the party, I have nothing to add to this. Except that Sam Rockwell slides into this kind of role really well, even if his character's presence wears on the tightness (which it it not) of the film. I mean, you can even enjoy him in Charlie's Angels. Labels: iron man 2. Wednesday, June 23, 2010.

Translatable Images: March 2011

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Trying to figure out exactly how I feel about films and my own cinematic tastes. The Age of Medici. View my complete profile. Sunday, March 20, 2011. The Age of Medici. L'Età di Cosimo de Medici (The Age of Medici), 1973. I'm guessing that most of Rossellini's later "history films" that he made for television are similar to this and The Taking of Power by Louis XIV. 1966) The reason I would rate the latter as being better is simply because it isn't nearly 4 hours long. Medici. The age of medici. I'm not ...

Translatable Images: August 2012

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Trying to figure out exactly how I feel about films and my own cinematic tastes. View my complete profile. Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Witchfinder General, 1968. The thing about any Vincent Price vehicle that I'm sure you've noticed is that if the ensemble around him is a bunch of cardboard cutouts than it just isn't going to work (think The House on Haunted Hill. Getting back to Reeves: if Robert Bresson were forced to direct a B-movie script about Matthew Hopkins. It might look like this.

Translatable Images: July 2010

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Trying to figure out exactly how I feel about films and my own cinematic tastes. Night at the Crossroads. The Docks of New York. View my complete profile. Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Night at the Crossroads. La Nuit du Carrefour (Night at the Crossroads), 1932. Paintings, but there is sort of an impressionist messiness to all of his films. In Night at the Crossroads. Where was that gun-shot from (oh yeah, Renoir gets. Sound, especailly off-screen)? It can't be that simple? Can it (It isn't)? If there's a C...