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  • Outcasts and Rejects: The Cinema of Kelly Reichardt

    Outcasts and Rejects: The Cinema of Kelly Reichardt

    One of the most impressive and unique voices of contemporary cinema belongs to Kelly Reichardt, a filmmaker who strongly believes in the complexity of mundane life as we know it. The simple acts of waking up, getting to work, and having a warm meal before heading back to bed, to Reichardt, constitute an endless combination […]

    Andy Mattioli

    September 6, 2020
    Director, Drama, Independent
    2008, Cinema, Drama, Independent, Indie, Kelly Reichardt
  • Casino Royale: Reinventing a Franchise

    Casino Royale: Reinventing a Franchise

    Hollywood loves a good franchise, but for the most part the chances of a franchise being consistently good are very slim. The Bond franchise is a prime example of this. From its humble beginnings in the 1960s, a period that saw a Scotsman in Sean Connery rise in the ranks and become one of the […]

    Andy Mattioli

    August 15, 2020
    Action, Drama, Thriller
    007, 2006, Action, Casino Royale, Franchise, James Bond
  • Musica, Maestro: Remembering Ennio Morricone

    Musica, Maestro: Remembering Ennio Morricone

    We find ourselves today, a few hours after Morricone’s passing, stripped of the presence of a man who was capable of amplifying emotions like no other. Having composed film music for over 60 years, Morricone leaves us with a catalog not of films, but emotions. Rarely have I felt so connected to someone who, like […]

    Andy Mattioli

    July 6, 2020
    Drama, Music, Western
    Ennio Morricone, Film, Film Music, Music, Sergio Leone, Tarantino, Western
  • Raise the Red Lantern: Generational Misogyny

    Raise the Red Lantern: Generational Misogyny

    There are few films that have had enough courage to address misogyny in all its complexity the way Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern did back in 1991. I use the word complexity because Hollywood has had a long history of avoiding the multi-faceted nature of misogyny in favor of a more narrow minded depiction […]

    Andy Mattioli

    June 21, 2020
    Chinese, Drama, Women
    90s, China, Chinese, Cinema, Drama, Film, Misogyny, Movies, Women
  • Bamboozled: Social Commentary Done Right

    Bamboozled: Social Commentary Done Right

    There is very few filmmakers today who are able to express genuine outrage in their movies without making it political and needlessly alienating part of their audience. Social commentary is hard to accomplish, mostly due to the constantly shifting media landscape and society. People’s sensitivities and priorities change over time. Audiences have grown to become […]

    Andy Mattioli

    May 18, 2020
    Comedy, Drama, Satire
    America, Bamboozled, Cinema, Comedy, Drama, Film, Race, Satire, Social Commentary, Spike Lee
  • Werner Herzog: The Power of Observation

    Werner Herzog: The Power of Observation

    How do we place ourselves in someone else’s shoes without intruding? Films are meant to actively participate, invading someone’s privacy, getting closer to the action, to the reality of someone’s life, their struggles, beliefs, and so on. It is undoubtedly a challenge that cinema has faced since birth. How to present a lifestyle in its […]

    Andy Mattioli

    April 29, 2020
    Documentary
    1970s, 1971, Cinema, Documentary, Film, Germany, Herzog, Movies, Werner Herzog
  • Two Popes: The Epidemic of Bad Screenwriting

    Two Popes: The Epidemic of Bad Screenwriting

    Two old guys sitting in dresses talking about God. This is, word for word, how Anthony McCarten, screenwriter of last year’s Oscar-nominated Two Popes, described his film that retells in a fictionalized way the relationship between Pope Benedict and future Pope Francis. And perhaps the problem starts here. At this very shallow and nauseatingly vague and […]

    Andy Mattioli

    March 28, 2020
    Comedy, Drama, Religion
    2019, Cinema, McCarten, Movies, Oscars, Religion, Two Popes
  • Humphrey Bogart: Act Like Yourself

    Humphrey Bogart: Act Like Yourself

    Acting without acting sounds like something out of an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm  and yet, if we look back upon some Hollywood’s greatest hits from the 40s and early 50s, a period that is often labelled as the industry’s golden era, we will see that the prevalent norm of the time was to blur the […]

    Andy Mattioli

    February 26, 2020
    Dark, Drama, Film, Hollywood, Noir, Thriller
    40s, 50s, Bogart, Hollywood, Noir, Thriller
  • Pain and Glory: How to Tell a Love Story in 5 Minutes

    Pain and Glory: How to Tell a Love Story in 5 Minutes

    In today’s day and age, speed is what matters most. You don’t want to bore the viewer. You want to deliver him the most vital information in the shortest amount of time. You want him to experience feelings within a short time span. You want him to get the juice of the story before he […]

    Andy Mattioli

    January 30, 2020
    Drama, Film, Foreign, Romance
    2019, Almodovar, Cinema, Love, Oscars, Pain and Glory, Romance, Spain
  • The 5 Best Movies of the Decade

    The 5 Best Movies of the Decade

    2020 is almost here as we are nearing the end of a fantastic decade for cinema. The 2010s have featured a steady rise in the variety of material produced by the world of filmmakers and have offered to audiences some of the greatest cinematic moments we could ever experience. The growth of this medium is […]

    Andy Mattioli

    December 14, 2019
    Drama, Film, Foreign, Hollywood, Independent
    2010s, Cinema, Decade, Drama, Fellini, Foreign, Hollywood, Review, Scorsese, Summary
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