Category: Film Review
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‘Oppenheimer’ vs. ‘Flower Moon’
March 10 is right around the corner — Oscar Night at the Dolby Theater. Among the 10 films nominated for Best Picture stand two giants, each about three hours long, both boasting top directors and talent. They couldn’t be more different in style and substance. While “Killers of the Flower Moon,” directed by Martin Scorsese,…
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About J. Robert Oppenheimer
Christopher Nolan’s powerful biopic “Oppenheimer,” now playing in Imax (where we saw it), delivers a powerful punch at nuclear politics and the McCarthy era. There seemed to be a Communist in every closet. And “Oppy” was accused of being one of them. He was put through hell, this after being touted “father of the atomic…
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Godard, Fellini – and Symmetry in Marketing
The cinematic world lost one of the greatest French auteurs of all time with the death of Jean-Luc Godard by (legal) assisted suicide at 91. His 1960 masterpiece, “Breathless,” tops my list of familiar Godard films. It stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, with writing…
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What Goes Into a Good (Film) Review?
Jeff Conaway And did you like last week’s review of “All the Old Knives”? Let us know! See below! Having reviewed theater, opera, and film for The Baltimore Morning Sun for ten years (and the Annapolis Evening Capital before that), I hope I learned something about constructing what might be considered a “good review,” or…
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‘All the Old Knives’: A Film Review
The CIA forgets nothing. That is the premise of “All the Old Knives,” a carefully crafted spy thriller directed by Janus Metz, opening Friday. In an interview following a LACMA screening, Metz said he found inspiration in such classics as “Tinker. Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and “The Third Man.” He also claims influence from such…