Brian De Palma's film Redacted received some press over the weekend because of its reception at the Venice film festival. The interesting thing about this to me is De Palma's "realities of war" are presented as "fictionalized" because he claims his lawyers kept him from presenting the truth. So in his own way, De Palma [...]
Citizen Pain or Film Bore
Jul 4, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Ugh. From the "surely you can't be serious" file, the Los Angeles Times is seriously comparing Michael Moore to Orson Welles (see THE BIG PICTURE: Michael Moore: Showman, satirist, journalist, provocateur). Moore also reminds Greengrass of another larger-than-life filmmaker. "There is something Wellesian about him," he says. "He has this preposterous, overblown persona that you [...]
Schlussel Reviews 'Sicko'
Jun 28, 2007 By Leave a Comment
Unrest by Parkway Drive