Tag: film
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Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) – In Brief
I’m still sorting out my complete feelings for the movie but hopefully I can find something eloquent to say about this film. Needless to say, Yasujirō Ozu’s story of mistakes, regret, jealousy and love is visually poetic and lovely to watch unfold. My being more impressed of the film on a technical level isn’t an […]
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Morality, Addiction, Greed and The Wolf Of Wall Street
A lot of things have been written about the message being sent by Martin Scorsese’s latest film The Wolf Of Wall Street –mostly centering on its moral responsibility. The idea is that Scorsese seems to be almost promoting the reprehensible things in the movie by his decision to make a comical and exhilarating and entertaining […]
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Room 237 & The Allure Of The Conspiracy
At its core, Room 237–the recent documentary that aims to present the different hypothesis of what Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining was all about–is a film about the mind and how it works. It’s about how people take in information and interpret it to fit their worldview. It’s not just about conspiracy theories for a 30 year old […]
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Notes From A Film Nerd
I’ve been in love with movies since I was a kid. I loved every aspect of it: storyline, characters, art direction, cinematography, score… all of it. When I started getting into message boards and reading more books about the process, an influx of films I never would’ve known about came into my life at the […]
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In Search Of Black Creators
One of the big issues about HBO’s Girls was the lack of diversity on the show. Is it noticeable? Yeah, but not to the point that it actually matters to the show. It’s a reflection of the creator, i.e. a show about entitled rich kids dealing with life away from their parent’s checkbook. It doesn’t really […]
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Movie Of The Week: The Royal Tenenbaums
The idea of family is one that has been permeating in my mind a lot lately–for the past year really. I guess that’s what happens when you move away from them to explore life on your own. As I try to figure out things for myself, I realize how much I yearn for the seemingly […]
Israel Daramola 