TFT 111 – CRAZY HEART / EDGE OF DARKNESS [1985 and 2010 Versions] / Art by Chance
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TFT 111 – CRAZY HEART / EDGE OF DARKNESS [1985 and 2010 Versions] / Art by Chance – – – DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: ART BY CHANCE / EDGE OF DARKNESS [1985] / EDGE OF DARKNESS [2010] / CRAZY HEART
Violence and Sentimentality in the Movies: A Dangerous Pair?
Richard Brody at The Front Row has this interesting reflection on violence and the movies/media in general: “There does seem to be a great deal of research on the question of violence and of quantity of viewing; but very little, if any, on the subject of treacle. I do worry about the effect of violent [...]
Gareth Goes Home: 'Turning Green' mixes him up
You know, we like to be friendly round here, but if you’ve been in the The Film Talk neighbourhood for any length of time, you’ll also know that we often grieve the lack of imagination in most films. Robots kill some people/people kill more robots; abs-ridden guy meets cute girl/conflict/unification; bloke changes, you know the [...]
Is it Wrong to be too Scared to See Paranormal Activity?
So I was up early this morning having slept restlessly after watching the end of ‘Battlestar Galactica’ last night (no spoilers – suffice it to say that fans of Richard Dawkins and Thomas Merton may find themselves both satisfied; I certainly was). Cylons colonised my repose (for some reason the early models, one of whose [...]
Better the Devil You Know: What I Learned from Satan in the Movies
I’ve spent a monumentally pleasurable afternoon in the presence of Satan; in the form of the ridiculous and wonderful performance that Walter Huston (above) gives in ‘The Devil and Daniel Webster’, a film about American history and the mythopoetics of the Yankee soul that deserves to be compared with ‘Citizen Kane’ (and not just because [...]
Film Criticism as Violence/Film Criticism as Love
Edward Yang’s ‘Yi-Yi’: Taking our picture, and hoping he likes what he sees. I’m grateful to Glenn Kenny and David Poland for their very human, very humble interaction over at The Auteurs (read the comments under Glenn’s main article from the 4th September), reflecting on the negativity that propels so much of what passes for [...]
