Archive for the ‘2011’ Tag

• February 1, 2012 Daily notes 2012-02 posted in Daily notes tagged 1994, 2002, 2010, 2011, 2012, a study in pink, academy, academy awards, andrew scott, ashley, awards, bbc, benedict cumberbatch, blanc, blog, britian, british, brothers, bruce robinson, cannes, critic, currently, currently watching, daily notes, dardenne, david, david ashley, docu, documentary, earth liberation front, eco, eco terrorism, eco terrorists, ELF, film, giovanni ribisi, holmes, horse, hunter s. thompson, if a tree falls, jacob wysocki, jean-pierre, jim, jim moriarty, john c. reilly, julie delpy, just finished, kieslowski, krzysztof kieslowski, luc, marshall curry, Martin Freeman, monte hellman, moriarty, movie, mycroft, oscar, oscar investigations, oscar nominated, oscars, racing dreams, review, richard jenkins, road to nowhere, roman polanski, sentimental, serial, series, sherlock, sherlock holmes, show, spielberg, television, terri, the blind banker, the kid with a bike, the pianist, the rum diary, three colors, trilogy, Trois Couleurs, tv, uk, united kingdom, war, war horse, watching, white, WWI
• 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
• December 21, 2011 Film review: Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol posted in Film reviews tagged 2011, 4, 4th, Andre Nemec, Anil Kapoor, apple, ashley, assassin, Bad Robot, based on the television series created by Bruce Geller, biggest, blog, Brad Bird, Bryan Burk, building, Burj Khalifa, cold war, critic, david ashley, davida, dubai, espionage, film, FilmWorks, fourth, ghost protocol, impossible, in the world, india, indian, ipad, iphone, j.j. abrams, jeremy renner, Josh Appelbaum, Josh Holloway, kremlin, launch codes, Lea Seydoux, mac, Michael Giacchino, Michel Nyqvist, mission, mission impossible, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, moscow, movie, mumbai, nuclear, nuclear weapon, nuclear weapons, nuke, Paramount Pictures, paul hirsch, Paula Patton, product placement, review, reviewed, Robert Elswit, russia, russian, scaling, screened, screening, secret, side of building, Simon Pegg, Skydance Pictures, spy, Stillking Films, tallest, TC Productions, threat, Tom Cruise, tom wilkinson, Vladimir Mashkov
• November 10, 2011 Daily notes 2011-12/11 posted in Daily notes tagged 11, 11-11-11, 1980's, 2002, 2011, 80's, ashley, beat, blog, cannes, casey affleck, chicago, chinatown, commentary, critic, currently, currently watching, daily notes, david, david ashley, desert, downtown 81, fellowship of the ring, film, friends, gerry2, gus van sant, heavenly creatures, jean-michel basquiat, king kong, lord of the rings, lost, martha marcy may marlene, matt damon, movie, new york, new york city, new zealand, no wave, paramount, peter jackson, re-watching, return of the king, review, sean durkin, sean penn, terrence malick, the tree of life, this is spinal tap
• October 4, 2011 MFF 2011 Fictions posted in Criticism, Film reviews tagged 1950s, 2009, 2010, 2011, 50's, asia, asian, beat takeshi, cannes, cannes 2010, china, chinese, comedian, comedy, crime, director, don't go breaking my heart, fest, festival, film, gang, gangster, gun, guns, hong kong, japan, japanese, kill, killed, killer, marriage, married, mff 2011, milwaukee, Milwaukee film festival, milwaukee film festival 2011, movie, murder, murdered, murderer, note, notes, office, one up, outrage, outrage 2, post it, postit, revenge, romantic, romantic comedy, romcom, takeshi kitano, vengeance, window, writer, yakuza
• October 4, 2011 MFF 2011 Documentaries posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, Act Rural, alan greenspan, america, american dream, blahyi, cartel, cartoon, corporate, corporations, disillusion, docu, documentaries, documentary, dostoevsky, dr. vandana shiva, drug, druglords, eco-feminist, El Velador, feminist, festival, film, film festival, financial crisis, general butt naked, greed, greenspan, joshua milton blahyi, liberia, liberian, masoleum, masoleums, mexican, mexico, mff, mff 2011, milwaukee, Milwaukee film festival, movie, non fiction, old, old woman, review, reviewed, russia, russian, screen, screeneds, screening, seed, shiva, silent, soil, The Flaw, the last mountian, the night watchman, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, the woman with five, Think Global, translation, translator, united states of america, US, USA, vandana, violence, woman
• October 3, 2011 Film review: On Tour (MFF 2011) posted in Film reviews tagged 2009, 2010, 2011, Alexander Craven, american, Angela de Lorenzo, best director, burlesque, cannes 2010, cannes film festival, cannes film festival 2010, Christophe Beaucarne, colette, david ashley, Dirty Martini, drama, Evie Lovelle, film, FIPRESCI, FIPRESCI award, france, french, Julie Atlas Muz, Kitten on the Keys, Laetitia Gonzalez, Le Pacte, Les Films du Poisson, Marcelo Novais Teles, mathieu amalric, mff, mff 2011, Milwaukee film festival, Mimi Le Meaux, Miranda Colclasure, movie, neo-burlesque, Neue Mediopolis Filmproduktion, on tour, Philippe Di Folco, Prix de la mise en scène, review, reviewed, Roky Roulette, screened, screening, Suzanne Ramsey, The Other Side of Music-Hall, Tournée, Yaël Fogiel