Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: I celebrate all levels of trailers and hopefully this column will satisfactorily give you a baseline of what beta wave I’m operating on, because what better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? Some of the best authors will tell you that writing a short story is a lot harder than writing a long one, that you have to weigh every sentence. What better medium to see how this theory plays itself out beyond that than with movie trailers? Tatsumi Trailer "Yoshihiro Tatsumi is a mangaka known for his gekiga style of alternate Japanese manga." Wish I knew what that meant. Director Eric Khoo...
- 1/21/2012
- by Christopher Stipp
- Slash Film
What appear to a monologue documentary illuminates the elephant in the room. We are the killers. .El Sicario. is the first hand account of a man born, bred, groomed, trained and educated to be the guy you least want to see in your life. If you see him at PTA meetings or community fund raisers, that is fine. If you see him on matters of business, he is the grim reaper come to exact vengeance. The worst of the latter scenario is that when you see him coming you know exactly what you have done to deserve it. The documentary.s screenplay is based on the Harper.s Magazine article by Charles Bowden, .The Sicario: A Juarez Hit Man,. and .El...
- 12/30/2011
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
In El Sicario Room 164, a former assassin describes his experiences working and killing for the Mexican narco-state in a bland motel room on the Us side of the border—bland except for the extraordinary charge that comes of the sicario’s claim that he once tortured a man in this very same room. There are at least three frames that count in El Sicario Room 164: Gianfranco Rosi’s unblinking camera and the motel room, both of which suppress context, and the notebook with which the sicario diagrams and occasionally illustrates his firsthand knowledge of the cartel’s systematic brutality. The fact that he is hooded throughout, withholding his identity and what would otherwise be the El Sicario Room 164’s key expressive surface, only heightens the tension between his emphatic storyboarding and the film’s non-illustrative method.
In the latest of Ben Russell’s single-roll declarations of an embodied cinema,...
In the latest of Ben Russell’s single-roll declarations of an embodied cinema,...
- 2/21/2011
- MUBI
Harlee Harte is Young Hollywood's celebrity columnist extraordinaire; at night the fiercely strong high school student dominates the red carpet hobnobbing with the elite and by day the amiable Junior finds time to make it to homeroom by the second bell. The multitasker has even found time to write a series of "I Love... Books" about your favorite celebrities which includes fun trivia, full-page color pictures, and more! Harlee Harte has generously donated her latest books for you to win! Get the scoop on Zac Efron, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Jonas Brothers, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. Harlee's all access pass slingshots her and fellow Bff's Kiki, Luzie, and Marcy to the front of the lines at every major movie premiere, award ceremony, red carpet, and special event in Hollywood. Like any normal teen, the mini-mogul has her share of problems, including babysitting her brother who drives her "bananas," and finding time to balance friends,...
- 3/26/2010
- by cjoyce@corp.popstar.com (Colleen Joyce)
- PopStar
- For those who haven’t had the chance to see indie film The Believer (Ryan Gosling’s career-launching stint) back in 01’, there will be plenty of upcoming ops to see writer-director Henry Bean at work. Via Variety comes news that the seasoned writer and now director will tap into his two talents to adapt the big screen the novel of Down by the River for Universal Pictures. Scott Stuber and Mary Parent are producing along with Peter Landesman and Naomi Despres.Sounding like Coen Bros. territory with No Country for Old Men, Charles Bowden's novel revolves around a 1995 murder in El Paso, Texas, that was originally believed to be the result of a botched carjacking but was later tied to the victim's brother's work busting drug runners for the Drug Enforcement Administration. Story eventually implicates the uppermost reaches of the Mexican government. Pegged for some sort of release
- 7/31/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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