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... and Dennis Cozzalio) -- a movie I naturally assumed would be (re-)viewed as the product of high (avant garde), middle (auteurist work-for-hire) and low (soulless corporate entertainment commodity) culture. It was. ...
Links for the Day (May 14th, 2008)
The House Next Door —
[image] 1. "Nic Cage to star in 'Bad Lieutenant'" : Werner Herzog (!) directs. [ "Nicolas Cage will star in an updated version of 1992's "Bad Lieutenant" with Werner Herzog directing, Edward R. Pressman producing and Avi Lerner's Nu Image/Millennium Films financing. Project, also called "Bad Lieutenant," is due to be announced at Cannes. Production will start in late summer." ] *** [image] 2. "Days of Speed Racer " : Dennis Cozzalio's epic appreciation of the Wachowskis' latest (time for me to get to work on my own). (Hattip: Jim ...
Bad Journalism: Pet Peeves of a Film Critic (and Other Cinematic Thoughts)
The Projection Booth —
... Looking at Speed Racer, then, I see another accomplished, if unconventional and challenging work being torn to shreds mostly for not being whatever people think it should have been to begin with. Dennis Cozzalio helped to light the fuse of my thoughts with his mega-article on the Wachowski's latest critical slaying. Perusing the many vindictive adjectives being lobbed at the anime adaptation, he notes (quite accurately, in my experience), that the majority of the reviews seem purely reactionary/pre-meditated, such as how Los Angeles Times reporter ...
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Film Experience Blog —
... Dennis Cozzalio defends Speed Racer and examines the entertaining critical fray. But I'm horrified to hear a plea for Days of Thunder (1990) in his mixology... one of the worst movies of its time as I recall. The only thing I can remember about it, other than my seething disgust, was the scene in which Nicole Kidman (who played a brain surgeon) shoved her patient (Tom Cruise) against the wall head-first so as to violently kiss him, POST SURGERY. That movie is stoopid. It does have an awesome theme song, though. Maria McKee's ...
Multiplex Mayhem: “Prince Caspian” to Fight Alone
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... .” Not that the film doesn’t have it’s defenders — cinephile’s cinephile Dennis Cozzalio has written a lengthy discussion of the criticial reaction and a spirited defense of the film that’s well worth your time (figure an hour, if you’re into reading comments — five hours if you’re into writing them!). Still, “ ...
But How Strange the Change From Major to Minor
Cinema Styles —
... about a new Indiana Jones film like I did in the eighties. When the other two sequels were released they, like the Star Wars sequels The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, were the summer movies to see. Now Indiana Jones is practically lost in the shuffle. Iron Man and the next installment of Batman have generated far greater buzz and even Speed Racer has it's share of enthusiastic defenders. ...
The Trim Bin #69
Cinevistaramascope —
... - Dennis Cozzalio's epic defense of Speed Racer has to count as some kind of masterpiece of film criticism, because it has actually gotten me interested in seeing a movie I'd completely dismissed even before its collective critical panning. I don't know if I'll side with Dennis or the majority, but if there's anything in the film as cool as this I'll be happy: ...
Terrible what passes for a ninja these days.
Cinevistaramascope —
... and I would reach a state of geek transcendance - almost completely wordless, the clicking noises of our thumbs tapping the controls forming their own conversation as our connection to game became kinesthetic. So when I defend Speed Racer as a kids' movie, I don't mean that as a dismissal - the Wachowski brothers have created a tactile, candy-colored world seemingly taken straight from the unconscious of a Pixie-Stix-addled 9-year-old who could kick my ass on the PS3. Until Dennis and ...
Vroom At The Top
The Moviegoer —
... I might have skipped Speed Racer altogether were it not for Dennis Cozzalio’s impassioned review of the film on his wonderful blog Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule, in which he proudly departed from the critical majority who had dismissed the film as an incoherent, empty-headed exercise in candy-coloured visual overload and named it “the movie of the year for me so far.” ...
DVD Spotlight: 9/16.
GreenCine —
... , "and to my great surprise, I found it every bit as thrilling and delightful as Dennis [Cozzalio] did. I'm quite frankly baffled by the critical drubbing it received, especially from someone like Salon's ...
DVDs, 9/16.
GreenCine Daily —
... , "and to my great surprise, I found it every bit as thrilling and delightful as Dennis [Cozzalio] did. I'm quite frankly baffled by the critical drubbing it received, especially from someone like Salon's ...
This one’s for you, Dennis Cozzalio
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... now’s as good a time as any to start. Much good film-geek reading awaits you there.
In the meantime, just a few movie moments with a twist of SLIFR. (Okay, this is mainly just because I’m in a Roger Corman mood at the moment.)
Two more after the flip.
And in celebration of perhaps Dennis most famed and controversial cinematic defense. ...
