Somehow, it’s impossible to find an actual Tarkovsky quote regarding 2001 online, just tidbits about Solaris being his humanist response to that film.
Damn.
I wanted to open with a comment about Norman Jewison sharing the opinion about the science fiction genre.
Rollerball’s a technical masterpiece. Jewison’s sense of composition and editing have never been better. It’s unfortunate, […]
Entries Tagged as 'James Caan'
Rollerball (1975, Norman Jewison)
May 14th, 2008 No Comments
Recommend on MahaloFlesh and Bone (1993, Steve Kloves)
February 25th, 2008 No Comments
Dennis Quaid’s performance in Flesh and Bone is complicated. The character, the hints the film offers into him, is more complicated, but Quaid’s performance somehow encapsulates all those unknowns without defining them. The film has some really strange touching scenes, as Quaid’s character lets down the wall long enough to express himself. And the anguish […]
The Godfather (1972, Francis Ford Coppola)
April 26th, 2007 No Comments
Talking about The Godfather earnestly has got to be hard. Also talking about it not in relation to its sequel–which happens less and less these days, something I’m going to blame on the sequel discussion scene in Scream 2. It’s stunningly unsurprising. My most profound observations this viewing–and its been ten years or so, since […]
