Word: fictionalizes
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Amid complaints about Blair Witch-style camerawork and flat, reality-show type dialogue, their principal criticism is of the highly ambiguous blend of reality and fiction, which leaves them wondering whether they should trust anything the film says. Only the credits (which list the names of actors who played each role) indicate that it is a work of fiction...
...Brattle begins its Film Noir 101 program with arguably the first and the best film noir. Legendary director John Huston (Key Largo, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) debuts with his own adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic pulp fiction novel of the same name. Hard-boiled San Francisco detective, Sam Spade (Bogart), goes head to head in search for the elusive statuette against the femme fatale (Astor), the “fat man” (Greenstreet), and his fair-weather partner (Lorre). It was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best...
Most distressingly, the foibles in the fiction of September Tapes prompt a host of all too easily answered questions that distract from the substantive reflection that the film would otherwise promote. The viewer asks himself: Why does Lars have a trace of a British accent? Because Calil is English. Why do Lars and Wali, formally introduced at the start of the film, immediately act as if they have known each other for some time? Because Calil and Razaqi have. Would Lars be better off without his iPod during machine gun skirmishes with the Taliban? Yes, despite the iPod?...
...scripted story’s sheer ridiculousness forces these and other oddities to the forefront. Time would be better spent contemplating the American role in the disarray that Johnston so effectively captures in the non-fiction filming at the movie’s core...
...puts it, “You can’t do a serious movie in the corporate system now unless you have re-incarnation or some science fiction gimmick.” The message is clear: don’t look for James Toback to be selling out any time soon...