Real-ly Films
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Just watched Noah Baumbach's latest movie, Margot at the Wedding. Great movie; scarily realistic. I love all kinds of movie---buildings blowing up, dancers singin' in the rain, romantic tearjerkers. But I so appreciate those few filmmakers who make films that are life-like. What passes for realism in movies is so far stylized yet so pervasive that we don't even see how stylized it is until we see a movie that isn't. My favorite directors and films in this vein are:
Mike Leigh: Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake
Catherine Hardwicke: The Lords of Dogtown, Thirteen
Alexander Payne: Sideways, About Schmidt
Noah Baumbach: The Squid and the Whale
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Just watched Noah Baumbach's latest movie, Margot at the Wedding. Great movie; scarily realistic. I love all kinds of movie---buildings blowing up, dancers singin' in the rain, romantic tearjerkers. But I so appreciate those few filmmakers who make films that are life-like. What passes for realism in movies is so far stylized yet so pervasive that we don't even see how stylized it is until we see a movie that isn't. My favorite directors and films in this vein are:
Mike Leigh: Secrets and Lies, Vera Drake
Catherine Hardwicke: The Lords of Dogtown, Thirteen
Alexander Payne: Sideways, About Schmidt
Noah Baumbach: The Squid and the Whale
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