So I had sort of half-seen references to the upcoming film Jojo Rabbit flashing by on social media and just today looked up the summary: Jojo Rabbit is a young boy living during World War II. His only escapism is through his imaginary friend, an ethnically inaccurate version of Adolf Hitler, who pushes the young boy’s naive […]
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Before We Vanish
I’m kind of curious to see Before We Vanish, but it looks like it’s not out in DC yet. Film Comment had an intriguing article about it though. Here’s the trailer: And we do have Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata (HU DVD 6809) here in Media Services, if you’re curious.
Continue readingOcean’s 8: Will it be at least kind of ok?
As we hear more about Ocean’s 8, this fascinating post on heists might be of interest to a few of you: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/2017/10/12/one-last-big-job-how-heist-movies-tell-their-stories/ What is a heist film? Bordwell quotes Westlake: Donald Westlake proposed a concise characterization: “We follow the crooks before, during, and after a crime, usually a robbery.” This indicates two things. First, the […]
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