Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 7, 2017 · Leave a Comment
“I have trouble seeing hope in hopelessness” It’s amazing how some tweaking can turn a decent film showing its age into a worthwhile project that earns its upgrade four decades later. To watch Franklin J. Schaffner‘s original Papillon adaptation is to see an arduous series of harrowing ordeals strung together for no reason other than […]
Category biography, drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, toronto international film festival · Tags Aaron Guzikowski, Charlie Hunnam, Eve Hewson, Henri Charriere, Joel Basman, Michael Noer, Michael Socha, Papillon, Rami Malek, Roland Møller, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Yorick van Wageningen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on January 13, 2015 · Leave a Comment
“How badly do you need this guy?” Is there a way for a village to get wiped out—buildings and people—and still ensure the dogs are safe? No. So why do Michael Mann and Morgan Davis Foehl write Blackhat in a way that forces its lead to speak unnecessary truths intrinsic to his initial declarations? Talk […]
Category action/adventure, drama, film reviews · Tags Blackhat, Chris Hemsworth, House M.D., Leehorn Wang, Miami Vice, Michael Mann, Morgan Davis Foehl, Public Enemies, Ritchie Coster, The Bourne Identity, Viola Davis, Wei Tang, Yorick van Wageningen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on February 2, 2012 · Leave a Comment
I walked into the Elgin Theatre a year and a half ago for the Toronto International Film Festival’s screening of Emilio Estevez‘s The Way without knowing exactly what I was in for. I loved his Bobby a few years earlier, but after reading the glossy sheet of information pertaining to the film handed out to […]
Category film features, interviews · Tags An Unexpected Journey, Bobby, Bubble, Camino de Santiago, Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, David Alexanian, Deborah Kara Unger, Emilio Estevez, Jack Hitt, James Nesbitt, Margin Call, Martin Sheen, Off the Road: A Modern-Day Walk Down the Pilgrim's Route, Steven Soderbergh, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Hobbit, The Public, The Way, Toronto International Film Festival, Yorick van Wageningen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on December 19, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“It’s how we’re taught about strangers” If Stieg Larsson had lived long enough to see his The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo become an international sensation worthy of two cinematic adaptations in less than two years, I wonder which he would have approved of more. It’s easy to disregard David Fincher‘s remake as nothing more […]
Category drama, film reviews, suspense/thriller · Tags Christopher Plummer, Daniel Craig, David Fincher, Fight Club, Geraldine James, Karen O, Män som hatar kvinnor, Noomi Rapace, Robert Plant, Rooney Mara, Se7en, Stellan Skarsgård, Steve Zaillian, Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Social Network, Trent Reznor, Winter in Wartime, Yorick van Wageningen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on July 22, 2011 · Leave a Comment
“Rule one in wartime: keep your mouth shut” War has a way of involving even the most unsuspecting child thought to be safe from the pain of death and destruction left in its wake. It has a way of hardening the most innocent of souls, quickening the pace towards adulthood by exposing all to hard […]
Category drama, film reviews, foreign, war · Tags Ad van Kempen, Dutch, Guido van Gennep, Jamie Campbell Bower, Jan Terlouw, Jesse van Driel, Martijn Lakemeier, Martin Koolhoven, Mees Peijnenburg, Melody Klaver, Oorlogswinter, Raymond Thiry, The New World, The Way, Winter in Wartime, Yorick van Wageningen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 18, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“At the moment I was to die, she threw herself upon me” There is no way to mistake a Terrence Malick film for anything but. His use of score as a character rather than background, the hitch cuts in scenes as though only a few frames are removed, ultra short vignettes right out of a […]
Category #002 Terrence Malick, biography, drama, film features, film marathons, film reviews, romance, war · Tags Christian Bale, Christopher Plummer, Colin Farrell, David Thewlis, Emmanuel Lubezki, James Horner, Q’orianka Kilcher, Terrence Malick, The New World, The Thin Red Line, Wes Studi, Yorick van Wageningen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 11, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Day Two at TIFF may have started with two junket screenings, meaning there was no chance of seeing any filmmakers/actors, but it also began with what could be my number one film of the year—Never Let Me Go. Amidst the small contingent of press glomming down free danishes and coffee courtesy of Fox Searchlight was […]
Category entertainment, essays, film features, film festival, toronto international film festival · Tags Adelaide Clemens, Andrew Garfield, Ben C. Lucas, Carey Mulligan, Casey Affleck, Coldplay, Conviction, David Gray, Deborah Kara Unger, Elephant, Emilio Estevez, Gossip Girl, Hilary Swank, I'm Still Here, James Nesbitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Juliette Lewis, Keira Knightley, Mark Romanek, Martin Sheen, Melissa Leo, Never Let Me Go, Oliver Ackland, Sam Rockwell, The Shins, The Way, TIFF, Tony Goldwyn, Toronto International Film Festival, Wasted on the Young, Yorick van Wageningen
Posted by Jared Mobarak on September 10, 2010 · Leave a Comment
“You don’t choose a life, Dad. You live one.” When you decide to fit in an almost two and a half hour film about a man hiking an 800 kilometer trail through Spain at the Toronto International Film Festival, you do begin to fear whether the time might be better served elsewhere. Arriving at the […]
Category drama, film features, film festival, film reviews, toronto international film festival · Tags Alanis Morissette, Antonio Gil, Bobby, Charlie Sheen, Coldplay, David Gray, Deborah Kara Unger, Emilio Estevez, James Nesbitt, James Taylor, John Huston, Martin Sheen, The Shins, The Way, TIFF, Toronto International Film Festival, Walter Huston, Yorick van Wageningen
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