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...Cape Fear and The Age of Innocence (both from novels that had been filmed before). In 2004 the director said he hadn't seen Infernal Affairs and wasn't planning to, but that almost doesn't matter. The Hong Kong movie's headlong confidence in using all resources of cinema (smart-jerky rhythms, a breathless narrative propulsion, the italicizing of a moment by a few frames of close-up slo-mo) to relate a tale of male bonding and betrayal - all this is so close to the style and substance of Scorsese movies, he could practically play...
...Scorsese, surely the American cinema's most vigorous classicist, is also the unrivaled master of movie exposition. Nobody can get a movie going like him, and sustain it with camerabatics and an attention-deficit editing ethic. The problem with his films, if it is one, is that they often describe a degeneration based on repetition. His characters' tragic flaw is that their crimes are their obsessions; they become addicted to expressing the beast within themselves. This makes for explosive moments in an anti-dramatic trajectory, so his his films don't build, they simply accrue - and then collapse, like...
...come a long way since his role as the arrogant and wealthy Harry Osborn in “Spiderman,” or his days on the short-lived “Freaks and Geeks.” In “Flyboys” he is the perfect cinema soldier—regimented, purposeful, and brooding—but is also able to relax to adorably woo his lady in broken French. The promise that “Flyboys” is “inspired by a true story” does not mean that all the characters...
...more great days of this, but by Thursday night decided that we probably needed to check out some classes. Friday morning’s class had us really excited, and it wasn’t the course material, because what of kind of sicko would be excited for Nazi cinema? It was the smoking hot blonde with the big blue eyes who had us on the edge of our seats. And that got us thinking...what if there were a whole race like her? “Our Struggle” continued when she got up and walked...
...Well, shortly into the proceedings at Cannes, the film stopped for real. My first thought was: Sheer brilliance! They're undermining the most basic cinema convention: that a movie proceeds uninterrupted from beginning to end. In fact, there had been a bomb threat; Cannes had a few of them in those days. The audience was shooed onto the sidewalk for a few minutes while police searched the theater, then readmitted to watch the rest of the film without further incident...