In
the main section of the film, Plainview drills on the family farm belonging to the Sundays, with grown son Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) as the hell - and - brimstone preacher of the local church.
Not exact matches
Certain
sections of the
film were really laboured and overdone, and for me the highlight
of the
film was the
main character's hilariously OTT facial expressions.
The
main menu runs through a montage
of emotionally charged clips from the
film with a
section of the score that crescendos in the background, fading in and out with the buildup
of the images
Lastly in this
section, there's a set
of six costume design galleries, and three sets
of photo galleries from the three
main locations
of the
film.
At this year's Locarno Festival, (recently renewed) artistic director Carlos Chatrian similarly declared that he foresaw increasing numbers
of women filmmakers in the competitions
of major festivals and that he was especially proud to tout, in Locarno's
main competition
section (with 17 world premieres), eight women directors.1 And Locarno's outcome, amid an impressively deep competition pool, was unexpectedly different: although I, Daniel Blake did win the audience award
of the Festival's mainstream Piazza Grande
section, a female writer / director, Ralitza Petrova, took the festival's top prize for her brooding and bleak Bulgarian
film Godless.
The
film's at its best in the early
sections, filling out the details
of the world with nice little character moments for Mildred Dunnock as the school teacher who doesn't get the principal job, Russ Tamblyn as the sensitive shy boy next door and Diane Varsi as the
main character, a girl smart enough to see the hypocrisy around her and want to get out
of town as fast as she possibly can.
The jury,
of course, is too busy watching the 17
films in the
main competition to follow some
of the other
sections such as «New Directors,» a complete retrospective
of that whimsical purveyor
of modern fairy tales, Jacques Demy, and «The American Way
of Death,» a vast program
of 40 crime movies from 1990 to 2011.
Oh, and as a reader has already pointed out in the comment
section of the
main review, the «secret stowaway who quickly becomes the
film's de facto villain» is prominently featured in the trailers (and on the one - sheet).
While its inclusion is worthwhile, it's best to view it on its own in the Bonus Features
section rather than play it along with the rest
of the
film (that option is presented after selecting «Play» from the
main menu).
But the
main section of the show is dedicated to Richard Linklater «s latest
film, «Everybody Wants Some!!
The first
section of the
film is an expositional wonder, as not only are the
main characters (including Secretary
of State William Seward (David Strathairn), Republican poobah Preston Blair (Hal Holbrook), radical abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens (Tommy Lee Jones) and various members
of the White House - hold, among others) introduced and motivated, but the political issues involved are explained with a detail, clarity and respect for the audience's intelligence that's extremely rare in a Hollywood
film.
Bound to irk fans, on the other hand, is an «extended branching» version
of the
film that theoretically reinstates a handful
of deleted scenes (also accessible through their own menu in the «Special Features»
section) back into the
main feature.
Ostensibly composed
of sections of found
film, it is set in Dublin, with its
main focus being the Formal Gardens at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, where IMMA and their exhibition are located.