Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 26.03.2014 – 30.03.2014

By Moroder: An Interview with Giorgio Moroder on Notebook – And my advantage, if you consider more classical composers like John Williams, who I think is the best, but he doesn’t write songs. But I write songs and the scores. So that’s a little bit of an advantage for me.  Why preposterous thrillers form a …

Grand Budapest Hotel

Wes Andersonin uusin elokuva on nimeltään Grand Budapest Hotel ja se rantautuu teattereihin 11.4.2014. Kirjoitan kritiikin lähempänä ensi-iltaa, mutta sitä odotellessa listaan tässä joukon linkkejä, joiden lukeminen saattaa valaista elokuvaa. Osittainen spoilerivaroitus herkimmille. American Cinematographer keskittyy kuviin: The filmmakers also experimented with front-projecting window backgrounds for shots in the Kunstmuseum and in Madame D.’s suite …

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 15.03.2014 – 22.03.2014

Post-Empire Strikes Back – DISCUSSED: Sodomania, A Bug’s Life, A Fictional Work of Fiction, Super-Subtle Intertextuality, Twitter, Picking Fights with Dead Guys, Fifty Shades of Grey, Movies Made by Committee, Ellisian Perversion, The Unsung Swordsman of the Year, Listless Southern California Girls, Striking a Pose and Holding It So the Terror Doesn’t Show, Batwing Lashes …

Elokuvallisia huomioita maailmalta 12.03.2014 – 15.03.2014

The cinema of Paul Verhoeven has an incredible amount of stupidity, but it is never stupidity that isn’t in some way attached to smartness – Everyone is a critic, but more than that, everyone, I think, has a critic inside them–a person whose opinions they’ve unconsciously adopted as their own, someone who they agree with …