2021 Movie Draft: Round 1, Pick 4 Featured on SLICETHELIFE.COM Genre: Drama Half Nelson: An Overlooked Indie Gem By Bernie Sauer Mr. Dunne is the middle school teacher every student wants: He’s sharp, funny, sports a cool, unshaved mug, and coaches basketball on the side. By day, he brings out the best in his students […]
2021 Movie Draft: Half Nelson (2006)
During the 70s and early 80s, radio was a common period effect in American cinema. Directors frequently used radio to anchor the Depression-era dramas that proliferated during these years, presenting it as a nostalgia effect with no real presence in the present. That all started to change in the wake of DJ culture, however, and […]
Amerika ‘nın savaş içerisinde olduğu zamanlarda 4 kız kardeşin hayatını anlatan ve kitaptan uyarlanan bir filmden konuşacağız bugün . Bir çok ödüle aday olmuş ve bir çok ödül kazanmış bir yapıt kendisi . Filmde tarihi dokuların çok iyi aktarıldığını düşünüyorum . Zaman kavramında o atlayışlar yani bazen kız kardeşlerin geçmişindeyken ileri ki hallerine gitmek , […]
What is the movie about? :: In an ancient magical temple in another dimension, a powerful wizard named Shazam (Djimon Hounsou) has spent centuries searching for someone pure of heart to grant him his powers and make him his champion. The previous champion was corrupted as he had released the Seven Deadly Sins for personal […]
In Another Round, filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg once again explores human foibles with humor and cold-eyed insight – and profoundly to boot. And, in Another Round, Mads Mikkelsen delivers one of the year’s finest performances. Mikkelsen plays one of four middle-aged male teachers – each in some sort of personal rut and struggling with career burnout. […]
ANOTHER ROUND: humanity buzzed
Olivia Colman and Anthony Hopkins in THE FATHER Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Colman deliver heartbreaking performances in The Father, an unsettling exploration of memory loss. As we meet the elderly Anthony (Hopkins), he is insisting on independence that he can no longer sustain. That makes it hard on his daughter Anne (Colman), who is trying […]
Martin Scorsese had less control over his second film than any other in his career, and as a result it’s his least distinctive release, even if it required a certain amount of ingenuity to bring some of his own style to the table. Based on Ben Reitman’s novel Sister of the Road, Boxcar Bertha is […]
Scorsese: Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Luca Marinelli in MARTIN EDEN A hunky and charming seaman, devoid of education, aspires to become a writer. Sound like Jack London? Indeed London authored the novel Martin Eden, in part modeled after himself. The lush art film Martin Eden is Pietro Marcello’s adaptation, which he set in Italy. Luca Marinelli plays the eponymous protagonist […]
MARTIN EDEN: Jack London in an Italian art film
In the Year of Pandemic, I somehow managed to watch one hundred and fifteen 2020 movies (and another one hundred and forty-nine movies from earlier years). Here are the Best Movies of 2020. Every year, I keep a running list of the best movies […]
Amazon Studio’s Sylvie’s Love is a love story about two people that meet one summer in 1957 and the journey love takes them on. Sylvie (Tessa Thompson) is a young woman working at her father’s record store. When she crosses paths with Robert (former NFL Pro Bowler Nnamdi Asomugha) a saxophonist in a jazz quartet, […]
Wonder Woman 1984 is the long awaited sequel to 2017’s Wonder Woman. Patty Jenkins returns to direct Gal Gadot as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman. Set in 1984, Diana works at the Smithsonian Institute in D.C. She is also secretly protecting the city as Wonder Woman. The film opens with a very campy scene involving Wonder Woman […]
Christopher Landon’s latest film is an addition to the Happy Death Day expanded universe – not because the narratives explicitly link up here (although Landon has suggested they might in the future) but because Freaky continues the post-slasher signature and sensibility that Landon has made so thoroughly his own. At their height, slasher films were […]
Although Danny Boyle directed A Life Less Ordinary in the interim, The Beach is the true spiritual sequel to Trainspotting, which ended with Ewan McGregor’s character walking into a rave future as Underworld’s “Born Sippy” crested over his final monologue. That final scene was effectively a challenge to any future rave cinema, and a challenge […]
Fred Zinnemann’s penultimate film was an adaptation of a memoir that seemed almost impossible to translate to the big screen – Lillian Hellman’s Pentimento, released in 1973, which describes her relationship with a socialist activist named Julia, a character that several critics suggested was fabricated. In the opening scenes of Zinnemann’s film, Hellman, played by […]
TILLIE’s PUNCTURED ROMANCE (1914) isn’t highly rated — but we should give Sennett some credit for jumping into the feature film racket with both flapshod feet, even when he could have had little idea of what a feature comedy would be like (nobody had made one). There’s also something poetically apt about Sennett co-directing with […]
Bugün sizlerle haftanın biyografi konseptine uygun bir filmden bahsetmek istiyorum. Filmimizin adı ‘ The Irishman’ Türkçe adıyla ‘İrlandalı ‘ . Filmimizin başrollerini Robert De Niro, Al Pacino ve Joe Pesci paylaşıyor. Film süresi itibariyle uzun gibi gözükse de izlerken sizi sıkmıyor. Şimdi filmle alakalı diğer ayrıntılara da bakalım. Filmin yönetmenliğini Martin Scorses üstleniyor. Filmimizin konusuna […]
Duel on this! This was Ridley Scott’s directorial debut back in 1977. A stylish historical drama adapted from Joseph Conrad’s short story The Duel (1908). Let’s do this! The Duellists As you’d expect from a famous director who went on to produce classics such as Alien (1979) and Blade Runner (1982), this film is good. […]
The Duellists: En Garde! It’s Ridley Scott’s Historical Drama Debut
Kapitalist düzen o kadar sinsi bir şekilde bizi köleleştirdi ki yaşarken artık düşünmez olduk. Bize ne sunuluyorsa onu aldık, bizden ne isteniyorsa onu yaptık ama hiç sorgulamadık. Üreticiliğimiz köreldi, bizim yerimize düşünüldü. Bizi gereksiz bir rekabete soktular. Sürekli yarıştık ama bu rekabetin sonunu, bize kaybettirdiklerini hiç düşünmedik. İhtiyacımız olmayan şeyler için zamanımızı ve enerjimizi harcadık.
Bir Sisteme Başkaldırı Destanı: Dövüş Kulübü
Merhaba filmseverler. Bugün bahsedeceğim filmin adı “Brother (2000)” değil. Yalnızca “Brother” (-ki siz bunu zaten fark ettiniz). Filme kült deme sebebim de buradan geliyor. İnternette arattığımda film hakkında bilgi bulmakta çok zorlandım. Hatta hiç bulamadım bile. “Brother (2000)” yazdığım zaman bazı sahneleri çıkmaya başladı ve dedim ki: “İyi ki filmi bilen ve sevenler varmış.” Türkçeye […]
En Baba Kült Film: Brother (2000)
Çok uzun bir zaman sonra izlediğim ilk normal 🙂 film oldu. İki sene önce gösterime girdiğinde izleme listeme almıştım ancak anlamadığım bi şekilde o zamandan beri bir türlü fırsat olmadı. Nasıl olduysa geçtiğimiz hafta sonu bir anda aklıma geldi ve izlemeye karar verdim. Enteresan ki internette altyazılı versiyonu bulamadım. Ve ancak Vuzee üzerinden orijinal alt […]