Classic Film: Au hasard Balthazar (1966)
I prefer to overlook style and form in Robert Bresson’s Au hasard Balthazar to instead focus on its plot and message. Briefly, Bresson used non-professional actors and was known to do up to thirty takes per scene to deconstruct the lines until they became a natural part of the actor’s speech. All this was to … Continue reading
Film Review: The Tree of Life (2011)
The Tree of Life opened in the wrong venue: it doesn’t belong in the mega-plexes or even on our home televisions, but should instead be moving around modern art museums. As a film, Terrence Malick’s latest is a near dud. The premise and title sound ambitious, but the end result is 140 minutes of poetical … Continue reading
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