The shorter, the longer - Christopher Nolan, Movies

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The Dark Knight

blogs.suntimes.com - 8/15/2008

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Dark as night and nearly as long, Christopher Nolan's new Batman movie feels like a beginning and something of an end. Pitched at the divide between art and industry, poetry and entertainment, it goes darker and deeper than any Hollywood movie of its comic-book kind... -- Manohla Dargis, New York Times If [Director Christopher Nolan] occasionally stumbles upon an indelible image ...

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008): D
The Projection Booth — ... of Anakin Skywalker (Matt Lanter) and Obi-Wan Kenobi (James Arnold Taylor) becomes an unexpected trio when the former learns that he has been assigned a pupil, the eager-to-learn Jedi in training Ahsoka Tano (Ashley Eckstein). Coasting on autopilot, The Clone Wars mistakes moldy sound bytes for character interaction and moral insight, an affront to even the purportedly lowered standards of children's television. In both style and substance, the film likens itself to what Jim Emerson (a la Robert Downey, Jr.) calls "Ferrari" filmmaking -- sleek and fast, and in this ...

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Film Experience Blog — gawk at them six things six things i'd rather have as hands than scissors. hee Empire Online super fun quiz with movie posters Jimmy Kimmel Live James Franco on prosthetic penises Plasmic Studio compares Watchmen images to the comic --pretty cool [thx] Big Screen Little Screen Strong cast for Date Night but why this director? Argh. Why does Hollywood do this? Why? Scanners a good piece on the pacing editing and storytelling weirdness of The Dark ...

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Observations on film art — ... situations–disguises, hostage-taking, ticking bombs, characters dangling over a skyscraper abyss, who’s dead really once and for all? The fights and chases were as unintelligible as most such sequences are nowadays, and the usual roaming-camera formulas were applied without much variety. Shoot lots of singles, track slowly in on everybody who’s speaking, spin a circle around characters now and then, and transition to a new scene with a quick airborne shot of a cityscape. Like Jim Emerson, I thought that everything hurtled along at the same aggressive ...