Saturday, February 27, 2016

Vinyl.



Scorsese's scriptwriters obviously think that the only reason Tolstoy (an artillery commander of ex-serf soldiers during a siege of Sebastopol) and Chekhov (a doctor in Sakhalin penal colony) did not use these words is because they were not sufficiently familiar with them. The uninhibited use of f-word to express virtually everything except record industry jargon replaced quality writing in a modern TV. This is a boring vanity project bankrolled by Jagger to force his numerous offspring to do something useful.

Saturday, February 13, 2016

Anomalisa.



A typical Kaufman film--a minute exposition of the inner life of egocentric personage eliciting no sympathy or emotion from the audience.

His previous, a much more ambitious exercise in the genre, "Synechdoche" compared with a very similar disquisition on a nature of time "A Curious Story of Benjamin Button", also suffered from the same inimical defect--his protagonist was not a wee bit likable or particularly interesting, or even intriguing (such, e.g. as Bride and Bill in Tarantino's masterpiece). This movie is a fair subject of discussion in a philosophy or film class and interesting to watch, but in the end a dry construct of a spotless--I do not mean it as a compliment--mind.