For whatever reason, Sam Raimi now has The Evil Dead released in a matted version (to 1.85:1 from 1.37:1). It looks awful.
Raimi’s strength as a director comes from his constantly agitated camera; his static shots are–well, I guess the shots of the sun setting and the moon rising in Evil Dead are cool–mediocre at best. With […]
Entries Tagged as 'New Line Cinema'
The Evil Dead (1981, Sam Raimi)
January 20th, 2010 · No Comments
Tagged: New Line Cinema· Sam Raimi· ★★
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984, Wes Craven)
August 7th, 2009 · No Comments
The best thing about A Nightmare on Elm Street is the font in the opening titles. It’s something sans serif and it’s slightly off and it looks good. To be fair to the movie’s reputation, I did jump twice, both times at the end; maybe because it was waking me up. As opposed to encouraging […]
Tagged: Johnny Depp· New Line Cinema· Wes Craven· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Last Man Standing (1996, Walter Hill)
July 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Before Last Man Standing came out–when it was, presumably, going to be a hit because Willis was on one of his career upswings–I remember seeing Walter Hill say this film, his film, was going to improve on the source material (that source material being Kurosawa’s Yojimbo).
Hill borrows more liberally from the first remake of that […]
Tagged: Bruce Willis· Kikushima Ryuzo· Kurosawa Akira· New Line Cinema· Walter Hill· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Friday the 13th (2009, Marcus Nispel), the extended version
June 7th, 2009 · No Comments
I don’t know what I was expecting from Friday the 13th, but whatever it was, I didn’t get it. It’s not particularly gory, it’s not at all scary, it’s not stupid enough to be funny; I do understand why producer Michael Bay walked on it due to the level of sex. It’s like they traded […]
Tagged: Damian Shannon· Marcus Nispel· Mark Swift· Mark Wheaton· Michael Bay· New Line Cinema· Victor Miller· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996, John Frankenheimer), the director’s cut
May 16th, 2009 · No Comments
Looking over his filmography, one could argue John Frankenheimer stopped making significant films at some point in the late sixties or early seventies (I haven’t seen Black Sunday so I don’t know about that one). But by the eighties, he was already someone whose best work was clearly behind him. By the nineties… well, it’s […]
Tagged: H.G. Wells· John Frankenheimer· Marlon Brando· New Line Cinema· Richard Stanley· Ron Hutchinson· Val Kilmer· ⓏⒺⓇⓄ
Metropolitan (1990, Whit Stillman)
March 2nd, 2009 · 2 Comments
Metropolitan has an incredibly traditional, incredibly cinematic conclusion, which might be why it’s so funny. But why it’s so perfectly in place is the characters–at least the more intelligent ones–impression of the conclusion. They’re aware it’s the Hollywood ending, but it’s a Hollywood ending in the context of Metropolitan, which is something altogether different.
Whit Stillman […]
Tagged: New Line Cinema· Whit Stillman· ★★★★
