If there was an award for Endurance Test Film, I’m sure that The Revenant would be #1 with a bullet. However, putting your cast and audience through a lot does not a good movie make and The Revenant, as directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, is a film that seems to be more preoccupied with the
Birdman‘s full title is Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) but it should probably be called Birdman or (How a Movie Can Have Great Elements and Still Not Work). That’s probably the best way to describe the movie which admittedly has some amazing elements that can’t be denied. It certainly has a startling vision from director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, wonderful cinematography from Emmanuel Lubezki, one of the best sound mixes I’ve ever heard and some delightful performances and yet…I left the movie feeling unwhelmed and detached. This isn’t to say that a movie has to be crowd pleasing or warm, but I felt the movie kept me at a distance and didn’t let me fully embrace the spikes and dementedness.
Well folks, that’s all she wrote on the 2013 awards season. 12 Years a Slave is your Oscar champ, Gravity won 7 and I’m tired so let’s recap. The Good -I went 21/24 in my predictions, gotta be the best I’ve ever done predictions the Oscars. I only missed Mr. Hublot for Animated Short, Gravity
It’s not every day you get to hear an Oscar nominated director describe the visual layout of Hogwarts with impeccable clarity and then turn around and explain why The Bicycle Thieves has inspired his whole career. But that’s what was in store when Alfonso Cuarón spoke to film students as the inaugural guest of SFTV’s new series