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...realistic archetypes, each one performs a single function and never deviates from that purpose. (As Philadelphia Phil, Rapaport spends almost all of his scant eight minutes of screen time chanting and jeering in a sports bar). Though the plot leaves a few loose ends, these work within the film??s internal logic. The Quantrell Bishop storyline is abandoned in order to focus on Paul’s meeting with Philadelphia Phil, but in the scope of the film, this makes sense. Paul never follows through on his commitments or interactions. He is content to simply let things...
Elaborate costumes, gorgeous cinematography, British accents, a doomed romance—on paper, writer and director Jane Campion’s “Bright Star” contains all the elements of an effective period romance. And yet the film??which centers on the burgeoning love between Romantic poet John Keats and his neighbor Fanny Brawne—proves disappointing, permanently handicapped by its lack of dramatic tension. Ben Whishaw (“Brideshead Revisited”) and Abbie Cornish (“Stop-Loss”) are wholly convincing as the movie’s tragic...
...showing films whose main objective is to deliver information, to deliver an ideological message,” says programmer David Pendleton of the HFA, “because we try to show films that have a certain aesthetic complexity.” This stylistic complexity can contribute to a film??s overall intricacy, as in the case of “Z32,” where the weighty conversation between the Isreali solider and his girlfriend is interspersed with Mograbi singing Grecian chorus style. The director effectively confounds the gravity of his subject matter with the frivolity...
...soldiers. In this film, Mograbi, who is also the narrator, takes his artistic aspirations to new levels, using animation, computer-generated imagery, and other surrealist elements to “mask” the young man, making him unidentifiable. According to Mograbi, these devices allowed him to enhance the film??s artistic qualities and preserve the anonymity of the soldier. Mograbi says that he also changed how he narrated the film. “Like previous films, I am always there commenting on the dilemmas [of the subjects], and this time I don?...
...Most disappointing is Rumer Willis (daughter of Bruce and Demi), who essentially reprises her role as the nerdy, slightly excluded co-ed she played in “The House Bunny”—a sorority film just as horrifying as this one. Like many of the film??s actresses, Willis seems incapable of portraying genuine emotion of any kind, be it fear, bravery, or anxiety. The sorority girls’ dialogue seems rather uncharacteristic of “best friends” but serves at least to break up the painful cycle of party scene...