Archive for January, 2012

• January 27, 2012 Film review: Albert Nobbs posted in Film reviews tagged 1800s, 1890s, 2011, 2012, Aaron Johnson, acting, actress, actress in a leading role, adaptation, adapted, Alan Moloney, albert, albert nobbs, as, as a man, as man, ashley, award, awards, baby, based on, based on George Moore's novella, best actress, blog, Bonnie Curtis, Brendan Gleeson Maria Doyle Kennedy, Brian Byrne, butler, butlers, child, close, critic, david, david ashley, dress, dressed, dublin, dyke, faking, fooling, Gabriella Prekop, gay, gays, george moore, glenn, glenn close, hotel, ireland, irish, Istvan Szabo (story), Janet McTeer, John Banville, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Julie Lynn, leading role, lesbian, lesbians, love, lovers, lynn johnston, maid, makeup, martial corneville, matthew w. mungle, mia, Mia Wasikowska, Michael McDonough, Mockingbird Pictures, nobbs, nom, nominated, nomination, nominee, novella, oscar, oscars, Parallel Films Productions, pregnant, pretending, review, reviewed, reviewer, Roadside Attractions, rodrigo garcia, screened, screening, servant, servants, short story, Steven Weisberg, supporting, supporting actress, Trillium, valet, valets, woman dressed as man
• January 27, 2012 Film review: A Separation posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, a separation, academy awards, AFI FEST, Alzheimer's, Asghar Farhadi, ashley, berlinale, best, best foreign feature, best original screenplay, blog, care, class, classes, conditions, couple, critic, david, david ashley, desperate, desperation, disease, elderly, father, film, film review, foreign, foreign film, foreign language, golden globe, golden globes, green, green revolution, Hayedeh Safiyari, health, home care, Iran, iranian, jafar panahi, JODAEIYE NADER AZ SIMIN, LAFCA, Leila Hatami, lower, lower class, Mahmood Kalari, marriage, married, melbourne, Memento Films, middle class, movie, nader, nader and simin, nomination, nominee, oscar, oscar nom, oscars, Peyman Moaadi, review, reviewed, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Sattar Oraki, screened, screening, screenplay, screens, script, separated, Shahab Hosseini, simin, subtitled, subtitles, termeh, worker, writer, written by
• January 26, 2012 Daily notes 2012-01 posted in Daily notes tagged 1983, 1999, 2010, 2011, 2012, academy awards, Adriano Goldman, afghanistan, alice, alice harford, anger, annabel lee, ashley, awards, bill harford, brendan gleeson, bridesmaids, childish, currently, currently watching, daily noters, daily notes, david, david ashley, doctor, docu, documentary, don cheadle, dostoevsky, eddie marsan, eyes wide shut, fassbender, film, goncharov, guard, hell and back again, hipster, ireland, irish, jane eyre, january, joe berlinger, kubrick, literary, Mia Wasikowska, michael mann, milwaukee, miranda july, mirror, movie, nicole kidman, nietzsche, oblomov, oscar, oscars, paddy considine, paradise lost, paradise lost 3: purgatory, peter mullan, poe, precious, purgatory, references, sandor szavost, schopenhauer, soldier, spielberg, stanley kubrick, the future, the guard, the keep, Tom Cruise, tom hardy, twee, tyrannosaur, violence, war horse, warrior, watching, west memphis 3, west memphis three, wm3, wounded, ziegler
• January 26, 2012 Seeking Producer for feature film posted in Films tagged 2011, a private investigation, absurd, absurdity, ashley, boston, cinema, college, critic, dave ashley, david, david ashley, detective, director, elusive woman, emerson, emerson college, feature, film, film producer, film production, fun, funny, independent, indie, indy, low budget, midwest, milwaukee, movie, noir, producer, production, quest, screenwriter, screenwriting, script, search, seeking, ultra low budget, wisconsin, writer
• January 20, 2012 Film review: The Flowers of War posted in Film reviews tagged 13 Flowers of Nanjng, 1937, ashley, Atsuro Watabe, Bai Xue, based on the novel 13 Flowers of Nanjng by Geling Yan, Beijing New Picture Film Co., Bill Kong, blog, brothel, Cao Kefan, Chan Quigang, Chaoying Deng, china, chinese, christian bale, convent, critic, david, david ashley, David Linde, EDKO Film, film, foreign, foreigner, Geling Yan, girls, Han Xiting, historical, hookers, Huang Tianyuan, Jin líng shí san chai, Li Yuemin, Liu Heng, massacre, Meng Peicong, movie, nanjin, nanjing, nanjing massacre, nanking, New Picture Company, New Pictures Film Corp., Ni Ni, paul schneider, priest, prostitutes, rape, rape of nanjing, rape of nanking, review, reviewed, Row 1 Productions, screened, screening, Shigeo Kobayashi, subtitled, subtitles, Sun Jai, Takashi Yamanaka, the flowers of war, Tong Dawai, westerner, Wrekin Hill Entertainment, Yangyang Chunzi, Zhang Doudou, Zhang Weiping, Zhang Xinyi, Zhang Yimou, Zhao Xiaoding
• January 13, 2012 Film review: Carnage posted in Film reviews tagged adaptation, adapted, africa, Alexandre Desplat, argument, ashley, battle, blog, broadway, bully, carnage, child, children, Christoph Waltz, Constantin Film Produktion, couples, cowan, critic, david, david ashley, debate, disfigured, families, family, father, fight, film, france, french, gang, god of carnage, Hervé de Luze, husband, jodie foster, john c. reilly, Kate Winslet, longstreet, man, Martin Moszkowicz, massacre, mother, movie, nancy, Oliver Berben, parent, parents, Paweł Edelman, penelope, play, review, revieweds, roman polanski, rwanda, Saïd Ben Saïd, SBS Productions, school, screen, screened, screening, SPI Poland, stage, violence, violent, wife, woma, writer, written by, Yasmina Reza