by Joseph A. Hazani November 20, 2014
I found this film by Sophia Coppola to be much more enjoyable than my first experience with her, with the acclaimed Lost in Translation. In The Virgin Suicides, we have the examination of the shackling of female sexuality, and at the very least the expressivity of what this means to blossoming young women. It must be mentioned that this is a categorical example of the benefit of....
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by Joseph A. Hazani November 15, 2014
This is a splendid meditation on aging, if not mortality. What makes it sweet versus morbid is in the ability to find comedy in this natural fact of life: we age. And when we age, we look back in hindsight at the years in which we never considered death a reality, or at least something impending. It no doubt changes an individual’s perception of how they live, which is....
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by Joseph A. Hazani November 9, 2014
It is always wonderful to see a genius like Christopher Nolan make filmmaking so effortless. It is even more splendid to see his genius blossom, while maintaining the humanely impossible ability to tell a complex blockbuster-esque story while revealing the transcendent at the same time. His talent is an envious one for any aspiring filmmaker. He reminds me of the musical group....
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