(Kromě níže vybrané doporučuji také všechny ostatní video eseje od Matta Zollera Seitze věnované filmům Wese Andersona. Dohromady vydají za analytickou studii o několika desítkách stran.)
12 Angry Men – A Lesson in Staging (Andrew Saladino)
Center Framing: Mad Max, Wes Anderson & Kubrick (ScreenPrism)
Constructive Editing in Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket (David Bordwell)
Howard Hawks & The Art of Screwball Comedy (Taylor Ramos, Tony Zhou)
Inglourious Basterds — The Elements of Suspense (Michael Tucker)
Jacques Tati – Where to Find Visual Comedy (Andrew Saladino)
The Legacy of Paranoid Thrillers (Travis Lee Ratcliff)
The Life of a Woman, Directed by Women (Emma Piper-Burket)
Manic Moretti (Philip Brubaker)
On the Waterfront – Aspect Ratio Visual Essay (Issa Clubb)
One Way To Deconstruct There Will Be Blood — Or Any Movie (Nerdwriter)
PlayTime: Anatomy of a Gag (David Cairn)
See With Your Ears: Spielberg And Sound Design (Nerdwriter)
Under The Skin – The Alien Lens (Julian Palmer)
VoiceOver according to Martin Scorsese (Truthtellers)
The Wes Anderson Collection Chapter 3: The Royal Tenenbaums (Matt Zoller Seitz)
When Harry Met Sally — Breaking Genre Conventions (Michael Tucker)
Why Do Dogs Die In Wes Anderson Movies? (Luís Azevedo)
Why Framing Matters in Movies (Chloé Galibert-Laîné)
WTF IS THAT? The Pre- and Post-Cinematic Tendencies of Paranormal Activity (Allison de Fren, Brian Cantrell)
Netflix v kontextu proměn filmové distribuce: „Thus, as consumers, we’re less concerned with cinema than we are with #content — and less interested in whether it’s any good than if and when it’s there.“
Call Me By Your Name: „But thank goodness Michael Stuhlbarg spells out the entire point to us at the end, and Timothée Chalamet stares at the camera for four minutes.“
A Ghost Story: “You have no idea how many times I fell asleep during whatever the hell that was.”
Tvář vody: „But I’ve seen The Shape of Water twice, and I still don’t really know why Sally Hawkins falls in love with the fish-guy, besides that, yes, he’s pretty sexy as fish-guys go.“
Začíná kauza #metoo připomínat hon na čarodějnice z 50. let? V reakci na článek A. O. Scotta o tom v souvislosti s Woodym Allenem píše Steve Vineberg: „The actors in Allen’s unreleased new movie who have made a big show of donating their salaries to various organizations that support abused women are making sure that, in this cultural climate, they look like they’re on the right side, just as in the 1950s actors who were worried about their careers made sure to distance themselves from anyone who was under investigation by the House Un-American Activities Committee.“
Internet zaplavily žebříčky nejlepších filmů, videoher a seriálů. V anketě časopisu Sight & Sound získal s přehledem nejvíce hlasů Toni Erdmann. Stejný film se nejvíc líbil i v Cahiers Du Cinema. Nejlepším filmem podle Slantu je Toni Erdmann, podle IndiewireMoonlight. Tamtéž se mezi seriály prvním místě umístil BoJack Horseman, na Slantu a Vulture pak Atlanta. Nejlepší videohrou podle Slantu je Uncharted 4. David Ehrlich umístil na první místo svého filmového žebříčku Moonlight a svou TOP 25 doplnil pěkně sestříhaným videem. Filmový rok 2016 zrekapitulovali také kritici The New York Times. Na Paste Magazine vybrali 25 nejlepších seriálových epizod tohoto roku.
Nastala doba, kdy se do amerických kin valí film s oscarovými ambicemi za druhým. Nadšení jsou kritici z nového filmu Kennetha Lonergana (nedoceněné mistrovské dílo Margaret) Manchester by the Sea, který by měl v únoru do českých kin uvést Falcon. O herecké Oscary zřejmě zabojuje drama s Denzelem Washingtonem (který zároveň režíroval) a Violou Davis Fences. Pověst jednoho z nejlepších filmů roku provází portrét bývalé (a dodnes nejslavnější) první dámy Spojených států Jackie. Zklamáním bylo pro mnohé kritiky naopak hvězdně obsazené válečné (melo)drama Roberta Zemeckise Allied. V omezené české distribuci se na konci listopadu objeví dvouapůlhodinový dokument I Am Bolt.
Objevily se první převážně negativní recenze na černou komedii Bad Santa 2 (v českých kinech od 1. prosince jako Santa je pořád úchyl), spíše pozitivní jsou reflexe dramatu ze světa vysoké politiky s Jessicou Chastain v roli bezohledné lobbistky Miss Sloane (do české distribuce zatím nikdo nezakoupil), špatně není hodnocen ani thriller osvědčené dvojice Mark Wahlberg – Peter Berg (letos už jsme od nich mohli vidět Deepwater Horizon) Patriots Day o teroristickém útoku během bostonského maratonu (zakoupení filmu do české distribuce je zřejmě jen otázkou času). Objevilo se již také pár ohlasů na třetí řadu románově rozvětveného vztahového seriálu The Affair, který se naplno rozeběhne koncem listopadu (jeho druhou sérii si můžete připomenout zde).
„These actors are working in a style that was last in vogue back in the 1970s, and has since been sidelined for more universal depictions of masculinity. They’re exploring grief and naked emotionalism, a baring of the soul that vividly depicts not only a masculine struggle, but a human one.“
„While many Bond villains have dealt in unseemly plots to rule the world, they’ve never been abstract; they’ve relegated themselves to joyful contrivances. But to bring James Bond into the 21st century means that James Bond, and the audience, too, must confront the abstractions of terrorism.“
„People talk about the ‘Golden Age’ of Hollywood in the late ’60s and early ’70s. It wasn’t that the films were better or the filmmakers were better, it was the audiences that were better.“
„But in the 1950s, her European films were rediscovered by critics and she was revered, finally, as an actress. At the end of that decade, when she was beginning her new career as a writer and cinematic celebrity, Brooks tackled the studio system in an astringent essay for Sight & Sound magazine.“
„In “Basic Instinct,” bisexuality is a weapon, a plot device and an arena for titillating spectacle — but sexual fluidity doesn’t quite add up to fulfillment on its own terms.“
„Moonlight is at once singular and universal: Chiron’s struggle as a gay man in an environment that treats such yearnings with scorn and violence becomes one of the more high-stakes dramas of the year, utterly specific to its lower-class Miami setting. But at its core, Moonlight takes the concept of the bildungsroman to its natural end point in ways that many coming-of-age stories don’t.“
„The climax is the best sustained sequence to ever appear in a Marvel film, a fight played out against an apocalypse in reverse that literally undoes the glib chaos that tends to end these movies.“
„Here it’s high time to marvel at the candidness allowed by the use of high-definition by Lee and cinematographer John Toll: observing these actors’ faces, even at rest, is like watching the surface of a lake, noticing it ripple with a breeze. Put another way: you see, physiologically, when a character has been crying in this film, for a few seconds after.“
„I never feel like my femininity is threatened by being powerful, or anything someone might say is a male attribute. So I find it so odd when men feel their masculinity is being threatened, I’m like, ‘Really? It shouldn’t be that delicate“
„Today, women continue to be a major part of, and often the majority in, horror movie audiences. In 2013, the hit The Conjuring had an audience composed of 53% women; The Purge had an audience of 56% women. Mama was 61% women. Even the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake showed to an audience that was less than half men.“
„While The Innocents is Clayton’s masterpiece, or at least his most perfect film, The Pumpkin Eater is his riskiest and perhaps his most characteristic work.“
„As is true for real-life cases and crime-solving methods, a murderer’s psychology and motives cannot be sussed in a matter of one day. The completion of a complex puzzle requires patience and, unfortunately, many have lost the quiet endurance necessary to filter through the many pieces.“
„The common knock against rom-coms—besides their being too often glibly hetero-normative and horrendously lacking in diversity and ironically ambivalent about the women who generally watch them—is that they are fantasies, in the worst way as well as the best.“
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