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Oscars 2012! The Tree of Life

Posted by hfurnish on February 22, 2012
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Written and Directed By: Terrence Malick
Produced By: Dede Gardner, Sarah Green, Grant Hill, Brad Pitt, Bill Pohlad
Starring: Brad Pitt, Sean Penn, Jessica Chastain
Edited By: Hank Corwin, Jay Rabinowitz, Daniel Rezende, Billy Weber, Mark Yoshikawa
Music By: Alexandre Desplat

Distributed By: Fox Searchlight Pictures
Budget: $32 million
Runtime: 139 minutes

Rating: 4/10

Just like Midnight in Paris was my first Woody Allen film, The Tree of Life is my first Terrance Malick film. I hear great things about it, and I really want to see The Thin Red Line after watching a clip in class. Unlike Midnight in Paris, however, I did not like The Tree of Life. At all. It’s amazing to watch, and I could watch a series of still photographs from it for ages, but as a film it does not do what I think a good film should do. This is a heated debate, no doubt, but all the same this is not a film I enjoyed for various reasons. The acting is great and the directing is great, but this film proves having an amazing crew and producing it exactly as it should be does not always equal a good product. Read on to see why. Continue Reading

Cinema of the Coens: Part IV

Posted by hfurnish on August 15, 2011
Posted in: Cinema of the Coens, Film/Television, Profiles. Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , . 1 comment

The cast of No Country for Old Men had a few things to say about what it’s like to work with the Coen Bros. Josh Brolin, Javier Bardem, Tommy Lee Jones and company mentioned how this is the way sets are suppose to be. They talked about how the level of professionalism is surpassed by none. Sets are quiet and productive. They’re the ultimate team with the same clear vision of where they want to go with the story, but at the same time they are open to collaboration. There are never any fights, least of all between Joel and Ethan. Working with them, they said, isn’t so much like being directed by two people as it is a person with two heads. Perhaps this is why, in 2011, they were awarded the $1 million Dan David Prize for being “a creative partnership unique in the history of filmmaking.”

This is the Cinema of the Coens, Part IV.
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