Over at In Review Online, Kenji Fujishima has rallied together a
"Directrospective" on the films of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai. The series has been covering, chronologically, one Wong feature per day since August 13th, all leading up to the American release of his long-awaited martial arts epic
The Grandmaster. Today,
I weighed in on 2046, Wong's brilliant oddball of a "sequel" to
In the Mood for Love (2000). It's my first perfect four star review for the site, which gives you a quick sense of how deeply this film affects me. Be sure to check out the other astute entries in the series as well!
Over at In Review Online, Kenji Fujishima has rallied together a "Directrospective" on the films of Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-Wai. The series has been covering, chronologically, one Wong feature per day since August 13th, all leading up to the American release of his long-awaited martial arts epic The Grandmaster. Today, I weighed in on 2046, Wong's brilliant oddball of a "sequel" to In the Mood for Love (2000). It's my first perfect four star review for the site, which gives you a quick sense of how deeply this film affects me. Be sure to check out the other astute entries in the series as well!
David Gordon Green's got a new film coming out, but it's not quite the stoned, brainless bromantic comedy he's been churning out over the past few years, nor is it the pastoral melodrama that launched his career – instead, it's a rather noxious synthesis of the two (read: a pretty bad idea). Two weeks removed from watching Prince Avalanche and I almost feel I went too easy on it; the movie's construction is so lazy and its sad-sack riffing (between Emile Hirsch and Paul Rudd, a cute pairing) so uninspired that it has basically already evaporated from my mind. Read my full review here.
