Quick rule of thumb: do not set the present action of your movie over seven years and then skip six and three-quarters of those years. And I’m being generous with that three months. 36 Quai des Orfèvres is one of two films–it’s either a damn good cop movie (with some bad dialogue) or a piss-poor […]
Entries Tagged as 'Gérard Depardieu'
36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004, Olivier Marchal)
November 2nd, 2005 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloThe Man in the Iron Mask (1998, Randall Wallace)
July 30th, 2005 No Comments
Now here’s an interesting Stop Button pick. (It was the fiancée’s choice, actually). Most of what I know about Wallace’s 1998 adaptation. It knocked Titanic out of the top spot in the weekend box office… That’s it. And the preview was bad, playing up DiCaprio as… a bad guy?
The bad king and the good twin […]
Danton (1983, Andrzej Wajda)
April 23rd, 2005 No Comments
Period pieces and biopics tend to fail, at least ones made since 1950. I was just reading something about the growing audience want for realism in movies–this movement growing in the 1960s and 1970s (though the location shooting of the late 1940s is certainly a precursor)–that want made period pictures and biopics difficult… there needed […]
