Archive for 'Art Zone @ The Movies'
Art Zone @ The Movies: Perfect Sense
Perfect Sense Dir. David Mackenzie Now playing It’s a fertile time for cinematic apocalypses, with movies such as Melancholia, Take Shelter, and Rise of the Planet of the Apes all presenting wildly different takes on what happens at The End. Whatever the reasons for this sudden doomsday boom (the end of the[More]
Posted: February 17th, 2012 under Art Zone @ The Movies, Film, Take 21.
Tags: Andy Wright, Art Zone, Film
Art Zone @ The Movies: Margaret’s Blessed Mess
Bless This Mess Margaret, Dir. Kenneth Lonergan Now Playing at SIFF Cinema You Can Count on Me, the Oscar-nominated 2000 directorial debut of playwright Kenneth Lonergan, was a marvel in miniature: a brilliantly acted, acutely rendered character study that displayed a firm grasp of what to leave unsaid. Margaret, Lonergan’s follow-up, unfortunately[More]
Posted: January 27th, 2012 under Art Zine, Art Zone @ The Movies, Film, Take 21.
Tags: Andy Wright, Art Zone, Film, movies, Nancy Guppy
Art Zone @ The Movies: A-List Spin Kicks & a Gaggle of Docs
Haywire Dir. Steven Soderbergh Now Playing Director Steven Soderbergh has long made a habit of polishing up some pretty dusty genres, with results as varied as the glitzy heist movie (Ocean’s 11), the weepily inspirational true story (Erin Brockovich), and the all-star disaster flick (Contagion). Although a certain ironic humor pulses through[More]
Posted: January 24th, 2012 under Art Zine, Art Zone @ The Movies, Film, Take 21.
Tags: Andy Wright, Film
Iron Ladies, Gods of Carnage, and Dennis Hopper going Plumb Loco
Now Playing: The Iron Lady, Dir. Phyllida Lloyd The closest thing Hollywood has to a literal definition of Oscar Bait, the biopic genre has long held to a strict blueprint: Find an actor with a slight resemblance to a historical figure, focus on a plot element that reductively informs all of that[More]
Posted: January 13th, 2012 under Art Zine, Art Zone @ The Movies, Film, Take 21.
Tags: Andrew Wright, Art Zone, Film, movies, Nancy Guppy