Tag: movies
Love at first shot: When great directors meet their muse
It was the 2010 character study of Greenberg (2010) that brought Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig together. He plucked her from an extensive audition process with only a few New York Mumblecore films to her name. Clearly both on the same artistic wave-length, there’s a definite sense of love in the air between actress and…
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The new millennium has seen a rapid growth in the number of conscientious big-topic documentaries. There have been multiple entries on such inescapable issues as the environment (An Inconvenient Truth, The 11th Hour, Gasland), industrialised agriculture (The Future of Food, King Corn, Food Inc.) and widespread financial chicanery (The Corporation, Inside Job). Now it’s the Internet’s…
Luchino Visconti: The German Trilogy
Movies have been called the art form of the twentieth century so often that it has become tiresome to refute the claim. Especially since this most degenerate of hybrids meshes the worst of all worlds into predictable pastiches of sentimental melodrama geared toward the mummification of the world’s weakest minds. Despite the occasional outburst of…
CURNBLOG appears in ‘The Guardian’
Hi all, I thought I’d drop CURNBLOG readers a quick note on some exciting news. Earlier this week, I wrote a piece for The Guardian as part of their Clip Joint article series, which also featured a short blurb promoting the work we’re doing here at CURNBLOG. The piece was on Conflicted Bad Guys in…
Time travel and film: Examining a science fiction sub-genre
Despite the popularity of time travel as a narrative device, it’s amazing just how few truly great films there are in this science fiction sub-genre. The concept of time travel has played a pivotal role in science fiction since the late nineteenth century, when it was most frequently used as a mode for exploring either…