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9/11: The geist in the movie machine

10 September 2009 8:25 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Genre filmmaking has warped and twisted its aesthetic to reflect the zeitgeist in the eight years since 9/11 but has harmless fun become terror porn as a result? Ed Whitfield puts on his serious face and investigates.

World events have often conditioned filmmakers toward certain thematic and psychological preoccupations. Film Noir, a loosely defined movement of brooding, chiaroscuro imbibed thrillers from the forties and fifties, was a stylised form of filmmaking forged as civilisation fractured with the onset of World War II. This was both geographically the case as many of many Noir directors were European émigrés fleeing persecution in the old world and thematically so, as they brought a preoccupation with moral ambiguity with them – structuring the aesthetic toward something far bleaker than American audiences were accustomed too. This was a style modelled on the darker, expressionist cinema that pre-war Germany, a fragile society characterised by mass employment and social upheaval, »

- Ed Whitfield

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Review: The Hurt Locker

26 June 2009 12:02 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

By: James Rocchi (reprinted from The Toronto International Film Festival, 9.13.08)

Based on journalist Mark Boal's real experiences following bomb disposal experts in Iraq, The Hurt Locker isn't just a welcome return to big-screen action from director Kathryn Bigelow (who has wrung both fame and infamy from her art with Near Dark, Strange Days and Point Break). It's an assured, confident, swaggering piece of moviemaking that manages to not only evoke every war of the 20th century but also, despite the claims by makers and some reviewers that it's an 'apolitical' film, speaks very specifically to the Iraq war. Even so, plunging us into the thick of things alongside the highly-trained men (and they're all men here) who defuse bombs for the Army, Bigelow and Boal avoid the speeches and postures and long, contemplative talks of home front films like Stop-Loss and In the Valley of Elah by staying in Iraq, »

- Cinematical staff

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Exclusive: First Look at CineVegas Premiere ‘Easier With Practice’

2 June 2009 3:56 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

As you know, we here at Fsr try to make it around to as many of the major film festivals as possible. We've brought you excellent coverage from Sundance, Toronto, Tribeca and of course, the best coverage of SXSW, our hometown fest. But even though we catch a lot of great fests, we don't make it to them all -- not yet, at least. One festival that we're sad to be missing this year is CineVegas in Las Vegas. While many of the fest's higher profile films are re-runs from Sundance and SXSW, there are a few hidden gems among their official selection. One such film is Easier With Practice, from writer/director Kyle Patrick Alvarez. It stars Brian Geraghty, who was sensational in this year's best film so far The Hurt Locker, as a man whose heart is opened and captured by a mystery and sexually aggressive woman who calls him late at night in his »

- Neil Miller

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Actor Sinise Clashes With Director De Palma On Iraq

10 March 2009 2:32 AM, PDT | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Actor Gary Sinise has accused Brian De Palma, who directed him in Mission to Mars and Snake Eyes, of pursuing a political agenda with De Palma's award-winning 2007 drama Redacted, based on the al-Mahmudiyah crimes involving six soldiers who were convicted of raping a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing her family. (The film performed poorly at the box office.) "There are 150,000 people serving honorably, but Brian De Palma didn't care to show those stories," Sinise told today's (Tuesday) Chicago Tribune. The al-Mahmudiyah incident, he maintained, was "one particular, horrible episode that happened by, clearly, some criminals who happen to be in the American military." Although acknowledging that he himself had not seen the film, Sinise said that he had concluded that De Palma had intended to create anti-war propaganda with it. "I knew he had a very political agenda with making that film to make the American military look really, really horrible. ... Brian De Palma hates the American military," he said. De Palma declined to respond. Sinise himself has exec-produced his own Iraq war film, a documentary called Brothers at War due to open on Friday. "This movie is not going to be your typical blood-and-guts, negative, depressing thing about Iraq," Sinise said. »

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