It has been a long time since I have been blown away by a movie. Some like Gravity, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, I watched with mild fascination. Others, like Disney’s Frozen, I genuinely liked and could see more than once. Yet, since 2012, I haven’t seen any that I have loved. I find it ironic that this filmContinue reading “Rurouni Kenshin るろうに剣心 (2012)”
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The Man Who Laughs, 1928
Based on Victor Hugo‘s 1889 novel L’Homme qui rit (1889), The Man Who Laughs is an American silent film directed by German Expressionist filmmaker Paul Leni during the transition between silent films and “talkies” (films with sound). I became interested in this film after I read a review by Roger Ebert, who portrayed it as “a melodrama, at times even aContinue reading “The Man Who Laughs, 1928”
The Thief and the Cobbler (1993?) An Unfinished Masterpiece
UPDATE!: On June 1, 2014, “A Moment in Time” was screened in London, with many of the original crew present of his original vision and work prints. Hopefully there might have been plans to re-release it in the United States. This one of the hardest reviews that I will ever write. Since IContinue reading “The Thief and the Cobbler (1993?) An Unfinished Masterpiece”
紅の豚 Kurenai no Buta (Porco Rosso) 1992
When I was a young child I had the pleasure, without even knowing it, of growing up with one of Hayao Miyazaki‘s most famous films My Neighbor Totoro (1988). My mother remembers how upset I was when she gave the film away, and to this day it remains one of my favorites. That being said,Continue reading “紅の豚 Kurenai no Buta (Porco Rosso) 1992”
The Book Thief (2013)
When I heard that Markus Zusak‘s infamous work The Book Thief would be made into a movie I was intrigued and skeptical. Usually, movies based on popular books are mediocre, like The Tale of Despareaux 2008, or unbearable to watch (like Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief). There are of course exceptions like Life of Pi 2012, and the first two Harry PotterContinue reading “The Book Thief (2013)”
From the Perspective of an Old Soul 