Not exact matches
ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather
than take the time to come up with something witty to
write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the
word «novels» with «
films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two
films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.
Written and recorded principally on viola, rather
than the home - made instruments of the Micachu & The Shapes records, and influenced by Iannis Xenaxis, John Cage, and, in her
words, «strip - club music and euphoric dance» it's astonishing stuff: otherworldly and strangely alluring, like the
film itself.
Male critics
write slightly longer reviews, on average, about
films directed by and / or with at least one woman writer (average of 485
words)
than about
films directed and / or
written by males (average of 473
words).
The enduring and healing power of love, the strength of the human will, living for the moment — these are a few of the themes Cameron covers, but instead of coming off as blatantly preachy (which, in some of his previous
films, he comes dangerously close to), he addresses these issues with careful subtlety, expressing them mostly through the characters and their actions rather
than explicitly
written dialogue (with the exception of a few
words of wisdom dispensed by Jack).
I'd also call him a
film critic and a screenwriter, though his criticism, like much of Godard's and Rivette's, is made up of sounds and images rather
than words and his screenwriting is always built on the
writing of others.
My
writing certainly won't do justice to the greatness of them, so rather
than struggle with superlatives and
words that won't satisfy me in the way the
film does, I'll pass almost altogether on reviewing The Lion King.