35mm print
It's hard not to think about the clip of Roger Ebert from the Sundance Film Festival passionately defending this film when (I'm going to make an assumption here about this bit) a white audience member asked Justin Lin if he was ashamed of making a movie all about people from the Asian-American community that would end up becoming bad influences for generations to come. But I think that people who ask questions of that sort are only doing…
TIFF 2022 #11: Special Presentations (World Premiere)
In the eyes of Steven Spielberg, movies are magic. To say that The Fabelmans is a movie all about the magic of movies is one thing, but Spielberg's recreation of his own childhood memories - from falling in love with the movies, to the way that they serve as a gateway to escaping from the harsh realities that one can be made to endure, or even bring you closer to understanding the world…
Watched on Criterion's new 4K Blu-Ray, which looks about as stunning as you would want any of Ridley Scott's films to look.
Can't help but find myself angrier at the men as depicted in the film, going from both the people who lead Thelma and Louise into their own fugitive lifestyle, but how they're treated and viewed by the police officers who are in charge with chasing them all the way to the end of their journey. A lot of…
35mm print
Clint Eastwood said this would be his last western, which later proved to be untrue with the release of Cry Macho in 2021, but if this were to end up being his last western, it feels as if he's making a picture that sought to break apart the stereotypes of the genre that turned him into a movie star. Like Sergio Leone (one of the two filmmakers mentioned in a dedication in the film's ending credits, the other…
Saw this one in a theater, after having won a draw from TIFF - and I'm really sad that many people are not going to have the same experience that I was ever so lucky to have with Disney's shafting this one on over to Disney+. But I think the one thing worth taking away from having seen Turning Red is that as someone who's grown up watching Pixar films for just about my entire life, it feels nice to…
