Lucky am I to be surrounded
by film fanatics from all over the country on Day 1 of the 2015 TCM Classic Film Festival as we wait for the second round of films to start.
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Not exact matches
There is a lot to learn from Alfred Hitchcock's work, his narrative was close to perfect and the skill to create suspense
by depriving us of the payoff and restricting our view forcing us to imagine how bad the situation was, for the longest time just to deliver it at the peek of our attention, and that my friends, that is a gift for the
film fanatic as for the filmmaker.
And, if you haven't figured it out
by now, I am a
FANATIC about the writing of
films.
Unsurprisingly, Persepolis has attracted the wrath of the Iranian government, but more captivating than the
film's depictions of cultural repression (a scene where Marji, out to buy a black market Iron Maiden album, is beset
by weasel - bodied female Guardians of the Revolution because she wears a jean jacket and «punk» sneakers is but one well - handled example) are its more understated portraits of Iran's intellectual elite, at once removed from the proletariat it so pompously champions and sadly delusional about the real threat of the
fanatic trajectory of the revolution.
Horror
fanatics will be delighted
by this
film and it is destined to become a modern day horror classic.
by Walter Chaw Ben (Jimmy Fallon), a Red Sox
fanatic and middle - school math teacher, falls in love with corporate minx Lindsey (Drew Barrymore), who, as is often the case in Farrelly Brothers
films, is perfect.
Inspired
by a true story and executive produced
by underwater -
film fanatic James Cameron, this cave - diving thriller has a lot going for it, thanks to a strong cast and high production values.
Greenlighted
by the studio to capitalize on the franchise while it was still hot, Dante and screenwriter Charles S. Haas (Matinee) made the
film they want to see, and being the creature - feature lovers and
film fanatics that they are, this meant a movie for people who saw things the same.
In fact, the story of Po (voiced
by Jack Black), a clumsy, overweight panda and kung - fu
fanatic, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and is currently the 49th highest - grossing
film of all time.
In Interview, a remake of the Dutch
film made
by Theo Van Gogh, who was murdered in 2004
by a Muslim
fanatic, he's a serious journalist who's been sent as punishment to interview a celebrity - fluff actress (Sienna Miller) and agonizes about being inside the room.
Perhaps it's a stretch to bring sociology into it, but at the least Evil Dead II inspires dissection —
by the theorist,
by the stylist,
by the fan of The Stooges and the Marx Brothers (who, with their appearance in Rob Zombie's
films, seem to have inspired a lot of discomfort in their barely - contained anarchic explosions), and
by the legion of
fanatics who treat public screenings with the enthusiasm reserved for The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Big Lebowski.
So, as far as he is concerned, Gore's
film is indoctrination, not science, and presumably,
by implication, those of us agreeing with the tone or drift of AIT are also no better than other indoctrinators, such as religious or political
fanatics.