Word: film
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...entirely self-aware and play like a wicked little horror satire, from the inspired opening montage to, even better, a group of awestruck foreign tourists that stare at the trees with wide-eyed wonder while babbling about Coffin Rock and little stick figures. These are the glimmers of the film I dearly wish Berlinger decided to pursue. Instead, he has his troupe camp out in the woods and, after a night of drunken revelry, awake to find their memory of the last five hours blank and their campsite, not to mention the movie, in complete disarray. The rest...
...pretense that any of this is "real," then what's the point of the device? But then that's the main problem with Blair Witch 2-Berlinger wants to have his cake and eat it too. He tries too hard to force the aura of the first film into a regular narrative structure. The sequel tries to be like the first Blair Witch by not bothering to provide anything in the way of answers for what happened, but while the "found footage" gimmick in the original made the lack of explanation not only acceptable but chilling, in BW2 it just...
Requiem For a Dream, the latest film effort from Darren Aronofsky '91, might be most effective if it were screened at an ADDICTS anonymous meetings or shown to recovering alcoholics. It is a movie about addiction, but also about the despair that people spiral into by trying to pursue their DREAMS through escaping reality...
...Darren Aronofsky: I wanted to make an NC-17 film. I was like let's put a rated X on the poster. I mean there's no pornography in the film, there's no gratuitous violence, and it's just that I want people to know that they're getting involved with something intense. I want everyone to know that if you want to see a straight down the middle film, then go see Bounce. But if you want to see something that is a more punk, youthful, fucked up movie, come see Requiem. And if anything the controversy (over...
...idea of blurring the lines between reality and television is in your Harvard film thesis, Supermarket Sweep. How has this idea and relationship evolved, particularly in Requiem...