While watching Gus Van Sant’s mystifying Gerry yesterday, I made an intriguing observation: The film’s opening images, which serenely track a car occupied by Casey Affleck and Matt Damon as they drive themselves to the middle of nowhere, are set … Continue reading
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- 1. Oslo, August 31st [Review]
- 2. The Grey [Review]
- 3. The Master [Review]
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- 5. Amour [Review]
- 6. The Turin Horse [Review]
- 7. Elena [Review]
- 8. Zero Dark Thirty [Review]
- 9. Tabu [Review]
- 10. Beasts of the Southern Wild [Review]
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- 11. The Snowtown Murders
- 12. Flight [Review]
- 13. Magic Mike [Review]
- 14. Holy Motors
- 15. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia [Review]
- 16. Rust and Bone [Review]
- 17. The Color Wheel
- 18. Looper [Review]
- 19. On the Road [Review]
- 20. The Loneliest Planet [Review]
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‘Gerry’ and ‘Heaven’ Overlap
Posted on Monday, January 21, 2013 at 5:12 am by Danny King in the Uncategorized categoryMy Favorite Oscar Nomination of 2013: John Gatins
Posted on Friday, January 11, 2013 at 1:35 am by Danny King in the Awards Editorials Uncategorized categoryWarning: This piece is all about dissecting Flight in and out, so if you haven’t seen the film, go and do that before reading. You’ll thank me later (or not, since it’s a rather divisive film). If you follow this … Continue reading
Dead Ringer
Posted on Wednesday, July 18, 2012 at 9:34 pm by Danny King in the Uncategorized categoryReviewing Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Elena yesterday naturally got me pondering the filmmaker’s two previous films — the first of which, The Return, is a real stunner. It follows two young boys that become suddenly reunited with their long-absent father, who shows … Continue reading
Anticipating David O. Russell’s Adaptation of Matthew Quick’s ‘Silver Linings Playbook’
Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2012 at 10:51 pm by Danny King in the Uncategorized categoryI still can’t quite put my finger on what it was about the recent trailer for David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook — which debuted a couple of weeks ago over at Yahoo — that reached out to me with … Continue reading
Mick LaSalle Looks Back on ‘One Day’
Posted on Sunday, July 8, 2012 at 6:52 pm by Danny King in the Uncategorized categoryTurning out to be one of last year’s major critical disappointments, Lone Scherfig’s One Day was released in mid-August by Focus Features and then virtually never talked about again — which is a real shame, in my opinion, because as … Continue reading
Whoa There
Posted on Tuesday, July 3, 2012 at 8:06 pm by Danny King in the Uncategorized categoryI’m not one to make fun, mostly because I know I’ve written silly things that people could sneer at without hesitation. I mean, you only have to go back to Saturday to find an out-there example, when I reviewed Magic … Continue reading
Stealing the Show — Again
Posted on Monday, June 4, 2012 at 3:57 am by Danny King in the Uncategorized categoryYou may recall an article earlier this year in which I singled out some of the most overlooked performances to come out of 2010. Peter Wight, on extraordinarily empathetic form in Mike Leigh’s Another Year, came out on top for … Continue reading
‘A Thousand Words’ is Actually Kind of Amazing
Posted on Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 6:12 pm by Danny King in the Uncategorized categoryUpdate: Needless to say (I think), this was an April Fools’ Day thing. Hopefully I’m not reducing the humor by coming out and stating that. I usually like to let a film settle before writing about it. Sometimes a period … Continue reading
Let’s Cut the ‘Oscar-Nominated Jonah Hill’ Crap
Posted on Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 12:52 pm by Danny King in the Uncategorized categoryAllow me this final brief observation before we do indeed put the recent awards season completely behind us. I can’t tell you how many times over the past couple of weeks — from friends, from other bloggers, from the guy … Continue reading
Mick LaSalle Talks ‘Haywire’
Posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 at 8:31 pm by Danny King in the Uncategorized category“There are people who love movies, and then there are people who love certain movies. And to sort one type of person from the other, you might show them ‘Haywire,’ the latest from Steven Soderbergh. Put simply, the people who … Continue reading