Milan Kundera’s novel was one of my favorite reads last year, and I knew any film version was going to have a lot to live up to, especially given the self-conscious, postmodern, meandering narrative technique (which was one of my favorite things about the book). The film doesn’t quite make it, though it gives it [...]
I’ve been half-meaning to watch this Oscar-winner (Picture and Dustin Hoffman for Actor) for a while, but I sort of put it off because it seemed like a film about an autistic savant and his greedy brother would just be depressing. Well, it isn’t. It’s funny, and sweet, and warm. Dustin Hoffman does an incredible [...]
Godfrey Reggio’s first “-qatsi” film was Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance, a dazzling display of images and music (by Philip Glass) comparing the quiet beauty of nature with the hectic pace of modern life. Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation takes the theme a bit further, again using only images and music to show the effect of [...]
Everything–animation, voices, music–works together to make this one of the most beautiful, most heartbreaking films I’ve ever seen.
