http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/11/08/to-dos-to-donts/ Twisted by Jessica Zafra - Pumping irony since 1994 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:48:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/11/08/to-dos-to-donts/#comment-29311 One Flew East, One Flew West in James Gray’s We Own The Night (2007) « Lilok Pelikula Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:03:32 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/11/08/to-dos-to-donts/#comment-29311 [...] Jessica Zafra calls it “terrific.” Then she asks further: Why do most of today’s good movies look like they were made thirty years ago? Did American cinema peak in the 1970s? Fellow blogger Oggs Cruz hands down and proclaims it “tremendous,” “a brilliant piece of work, ” and “probably one of the year’s best.” It has been a long time since I last saw a Hollywood film in cinema and enjoyed it at the same time. Convinced, I rushed to see it — alone and lowly — and came to realize the enormity of superlatives that this film is getting. Without any hint of disappointment, James Gray’s We Own The Night is fantastic — it is cooked medium-rare and somehow I can sense a chunk of genius at work, a modest film whose virtues can easily be ignored, and though I am not as ecstatic as Oggs and Jessica, I believe this film is damn good. [...] [...] Jessica Zafra calls it “terrific.” Then she asks further: Why do most of today’s good movies look like they were made thirty years ago? Did American cinema peak in the 1970s? Fellow blogger Oggs Cruz hands down and proclaims it “tremendous,” “a brilliant piece of work, ” and “probably one of the year’s best.” It has been a long time since I last saw a Hollywood film in cinema and enjoyed it at the same time. Convinced, I rushed to see it — alone and lowly — and came to realize the enormity of superlatives that this film is getting. Without any hint of disappointment, James Gray’s We Own The Night is fantastic — it is cooked medium-rare and somehow I can sense a chunk of genius at work, a modest film whose virtues can easily be ignored, and though I am not as ecstatic as Oggs and Jessica, I believe this film is damn good. [...]

]]> http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/11/08/to-dos-to-donts/#comment-28902 Jun Somoza Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:56:11 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/11/08/to-dos-to-donts/#comment-28902 Will go with my puffer fish. Will go with my puffer fish.

]]> http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/11/08/to-dos-to-donts/#comment-28692 chotda Thu, 08 Nov 2007 15:15:24 +0000 http://jessicarulestheuniverse.com/2007/11/08/to-dos-to-donts/#comment-28692 peter biskind's book <a href="http://www.salon.com/books/feature/1998/04/cov_22feature.html" rel="nofollow">"easy riders, raging bulls"</a> pretty much says, yeah, the '70s were the best time for american cinema. i don't know if i agree (or disagree, for that matter), but it is a great read. sooo much gossip. peter biskind’s book “easy riders, raging bulls” pretty much says, yeah, the ’70s were the best time for american cinema. i don’t know if i agree (or disagree, for that matter), but it is a great read. sooo much gossip.

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