Wednesday, March 23 2005
I Heart Huckabees: 2-Disc Special Edition (2004)
The Special Edition is loaded with so much self-referential material and 'oh so clever' concepts that they threaten to make the movie into its own cult object.
Monday, February 28 2005
I Heart Huckabees: 2-Disc Special Edition (2004)
As hard as he tries, Albert can't quite keep up with the Jaffes' questions, let alone their answers.
Friday, October 1 2004
I Heart Huckabees (2004)
Albert is again faced with basic questions: Are we really 'all connected'? How can 'everything be the same even if it's different'?"
Sunday, January 1 1995
Three Kings (1999)
Puke green bile, dark blood, convulsing pink. tissue. A close-up shot following a bullet's path into and through internal organs is a frankly terrible image. In most war movies, bullets do tend to fly. But you only see their external effects: blood spurts, faces contort, handheld cameras zig and zag, explosions-effects create aestheticized, often slo-mo, chaos. In David O. Russell's Three Kings, however, you see the insides: the bullet rushes forward, stops, lodging in mangled, throbbing flesh while fluids accumulate. It's visceral and immediate. It's surreal and nasty.
