Tuesday, October 11 2011
Nostalgia Goes Digital: Turning Back Time in the Films of David Fincher
Digital cinema and nostalgia go hand in hand in David Fincher films. The director has used these powerful tools to recreate the past, but nostalgia has historically refused to surrender in his work.
Friday, November 12 2010
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross: The Social Network Soundtrack
Even if Reznor and Ross produce little that would not have felt at home on their recent collaborations, Fincher's application of their unsettling abilities to his unnerving movie feels like one of the project's multiple strokes of inspired genius.
Monday, February 16 2009
Which road will Oscar take? ‘Benjamin Button,’ ‘Slumdog’ travel on two distinct paths
Wednesday, December 24 2008
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
It's an inelegant but provocative means to measure Benjamin and Daisy's ostensibly transcendent connection: as he grows young and she grows old, they share but a single moment when their bodies and visions and hopes can easily coincide.
Wednesday, August 15 2007
Zodiac
Bonds are fleetingly forged then broken, comradeship and honour are largely absent and, like the Zodiac himself, everyone emerges as a rather lost and damaged soul.
Zodiac (2007)
David Fincher's excellent new movie winds clues and pursuits into an intriguing, often witty mix of causes and effects. In so doing, it rejiggers the police procedural.
Thursday, September 12 2002
Panic Room (2002)
This 'Panic Room' DVD leaves you to figure the moves and angles.
