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 the Toronto Film Festival has ended, and though I have barely paid attention to this or Telluride it seems like I should update my Oscar predictions.
Have you all been visiting Awards Circuit recently? If you didn’t know that I was back writing for them…well now you do. There’s a lot of awesome stuff going on over there like ACCA 1998, where the readers are voting on their favorites from 1998. I felt like I should do the same here at
The Grand Budapest Hotel, the new film by Wes Anderson is certainly one of the most unique films that moviegoers will have the chance to experience in 2014. The director, whose previous credits include delightful films like The Fantastic Mr. Fox and Moonrise Kingdom, takes another step on his journey as a filmmaker to bring