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watching a triple feature of films contemplating man s ugliest impulses i came away with a renewed sense of optimism that if we can t fix the world we can at least spruce up our little corner of it these movies have been around a long while so spoilers abound no complaining first up on the program was quentin tarantino s inglourious basterds a film i saw in the theater back in 2009 i hailed it as a masterpiece at the time then haven t watched it since afraid to find out i was wrong i needn t have worried as with all of tarantino s movies there s lots of talk punctuated by cartoonish levels of violence as with most of his movies it s absolutely brilliant freed of the need to follow the plot and digest the movie s many surprises this time around i allowed myself the luxury of thinking and perhaps even more dangerous feeling as it turns out inglourious basterds has something to say about our current predicament although i d hesitate to suggest it offers a workable solution if you don t know the movie it s set in nazi occupied france during world war ii and follows three broad narratives that of the jew hunter colonel hans landa christoph waltz in an oscar winning turn and his favorite prey shosanna mélanie laurent a british officer michael fassbender and his double agent contact diane kruger and finally the basterds of the title a group of commandos led by brad pitt wreaking havoc behind the german lines we in the killin nazi business and cousin business is a boomin those germans the basterds don t kill wind up with a swastika carved into their foreheads as a sign for the rest of time that they once fought in service of the worst cause in human history these three narrative threads converge on a small cinema in paris where the reich s leaders including hitler himself are attending a movie premiere but that s the plot it was the message i was interested in this time around and that is this whether you are a true believer or a shameless opportunist an enthusiastic volunteer or a pants wetting draftee you are responsible for the cause you fight for and you will answer for the damage you do as kurt vonnegut once said we are what we pretend to be so we must be careful about what we pretend to be something for trolls of every stripe to keep in mind the second movie there will be blood i had actively avoided for a decade perhaps because the famous line i drink your milkshake led me to believe it was a comedy about dairy products it is in point of fact a tragedy featuring petroleum byproducts based on sinclair lewis s novel oil paul thomas anderson gives us the story of daniel plainview the great daniel day lewis winning his second of three oscars a would be oilman who gets everything he ever wanted and loses himself in the process but this isn t a morality play about greed it s a cautionary tale about that most american of virtues and vices rugged individualism plainview s dream isn t to pile up money he turns down an easy million for example opting instead for the hard risky work of building a pipeline to the sea no what plainview longs for is to cut the middleman out of his business affairs and not just the railroads and the big oil producers who take a large cut of the profits but all middlemen everywhere friends family god and finally dignity and sanity anyone or anything upon which he might have to rely by the end he s living like a feral cat in a giant mansion free at last many reviews concluded that plainview is a monster and maybe he is but there s a certain majesty in his labors at least he s making something of tangible value as opposed to the worthless paper products wall street s fraudsters and slicky boys fobbed off on a gullible public but crazy plainview most definitely is the end for all of us who think we can live without regard for our fellow human beings is there will be blood a great film yes absolutely unless it s terrible the movie is two and a half hours long is virtually silent for long stretches as it contemplates the west like no one since john ford and when people do finally speak they say nothing of value which is fine because no one is listening anyway like dunkirk which i reviewed recently here the characters in there will be blood reveal themselves strictly by their actions do they reveal enough that is the question i d have to see the movie again to decide for sure whether there s as much moving under its surface as i think there is check back here in 2027 for my final verdict the third movie on the list the grand budapest hotel i have seen again first on tuesday then again on wednesday when katie bar the door returned to town and in this case at least i m sure it is a great movie wes anderson s masterpiece on its surface the grand budapest hotel is a shaggy dog story about how a hotel lobby boy tony revolori became the richest man in europe but ultimately it s a contemplation of grace under pressure kindness in the face of cruelty beauty in an ugly world set in the years between the two world wars ralph fiennes plays the lobby boy s mentor monsieur gustave h the concierge of the grand budapest eastern europe s finest hotel gustave meets his guests every need especially the needs of rich lonely women not from any motivation as mundane as reflexive servitude or the puritan work ethic but because he is a civilized man who finds pleasure and meaning in creating a bubble of civilization for those fleeing an uncivilized world you see there are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity indeed that s what we provide in our own modest humble insignificant oh fuck it like the inchworm measuring the marigolds gustave labors unceasingly despite knowing that in the long run it won t make the slightest bit of difference but what s the alternative surrender to chaos and cruelty and death hell no if sooner or later we re all going to die i have written before can t we at least do it with a bit of dignity and honor and laughter and good company and in gustave s case poetry and perfume and pastry as well as it turns out ralph fiennes is the perfect actor to lead a wes anderson film he can deliver helium filled balloons of dialogue without puncturing the illusion that he actually believes what he s saying and in a film like this that s absolutely vital one prick of cynicism and the balloon bursts this is fiennes best work since schindler s list i confess i haven t much enjoyed wes anderson in the past i have detected underneath the celebrated whimsy of such films as the royal tenenbaums and the life aquatic with steve zissou a sourness that for me at least curdled his confections and made them hard to swallow that and when everybody is a nut nobody is a nut and the whole thing gets a bit tedious but here there s something generous and moving and maybe even heroic in gustave s devotion to the better angels of our nature rudeness is merely an expression of fear people fear they won t get what they want the most dreadful and unattractive person only needs to be loved and they will open up like a flower well some of them anyway cameos by everyone bill murray ed norton harvey keitel jude law tom wilkinson f murray abraham jason schwartzman tilda swinton owen wilson bob balaban léa seydoux and many others excellent supporting work from adrien brody willem defoe jeff goldblum and saoirse ronan tony revolori as the lobby boy zero moustafa was terrific ralph fiennes deserved an oscar nomination at the very least the grand budapest hotel was 2014 s best movie wes anderson its best director posted by mythical monkey at 3 45 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2007 2009 2014 daniel day lewis paul thomas anderson quentin tarantino ralph fiennes review wes anderson monday august 7 2017 dunkirk 2017 a review yesterday katie bar the door and i finally got around to seeing writer director christopher nolan s latest blockbuster dunkirk in 70mm down at the american film institute in silver spring maryland if you know your history dunkirk is a place name that conjures up one of the most pivotal moments of world war ii the evacuation of the british army during the fall of france in june 1940 surrounded on three sides by the advancing nazi armies and on the fourth side by the sea the british found themselves on the verge of annihilation rather than negotiating terms however thousands of civilians took to fishing trawlers tugboats and pleasure craft crossed the channel and pulled 300 000 men off the beach to safety this heroic defeat rallied the british people to stand alone against hitler s armies a stand now rightly regarded as their finest hour dunkirk is not a typical history lesson however with churchill and hitler barking orders at the strategic level instead the tale is told from three very intimate points of view a week in the life of a british soldier fionn whitehead stranded on the beach a day in the life of a weekend boater mark rylance and his son sailing from england across the channel to rescue said soldiers and an hour in the life of a british fighter pilot tom hardy tasked with protecting sea and sand alike from marauding german bombers each moment is observed in extreme close up that is to say limited strictly to details within the character s immediate line of sight or concern without any backstory exposition humor or any other traditional storytelling device to provide context or lighten the load in that sense dunkirk reminded me of the interstitial chapters in hemingway s first short story collection in our time where a single paragraph served as a drop of water from which to extrapolate the existence of an ocean the movie crosscuts continuously between stories but not on simultaneous action as you ve been taught to expect since the days of griffith instead on simultaneous emotions running along converging narrative arcs it s an audacious storytelling device but then nolan has spent his entire career from following to memento to inception to interstellar playing with chronology and narrative the action is intense the mood desperate there is no respite no breather if you have a fear of drowning in a tightly enclosed space either alone or with a hundred men screaming out their last around you this movie may not be for you if you have claustrophobia or abandonment issues if you re afraid of heights or fire or the dark stay home if you don t like the idea of getting blown up or shot at rent a nice rom com instead katie bar the door found the experience relentless and a bit exhausting on the other hand my fourteen year old niece has seen it three times one question that kept buzzing around in my head before the movie was why dunkirk why now it s not an anniversary it hasn t been in the news afterwards i added to that why such a tight focus on a handful of nearly anonymous characters not that it doesn t work but stripped almost entirely of its historical context the story becomes an abstract outline a compelling outline but an outline nevertheless and then it hit me an outline of huddled masses yearning to breath free fleeing the horrors of war hoping against hope for a rescue from across the sea stripped of the filigree dunkirk is at its heart not a war story but a refugee story and what are there millions and millions of right now refugees it s the great moral and humanitarian crisis of our generation and our failure to act our indifference our outright hostility in the face of a tidal wave of desperation and human misery flowing out of the muslim world threatens to crack the very foundation of the west as we know it suddenly dunkirk seemed to me very timely timeless too if you pull back even farther you see not just the historical battle of dunkirk and not just a parallel to today s world but the story of mankind writ large the never ending battle between chaos and culture cynicism and compassion cowardice and courage that nolan can take such a grim story tell it in such a radically experimental style and still sell hundreds of millions of dollars worth of tickets well that s not just genius that s art dunkirk isn t a perfect movie only i suspect a great one stay tuned it just might be the best picture of the year posted by mythical monkey at 3 33 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 2017 christopher nolan politics review war sunday august 6 2017 robert mitchum at 100 must see mitchum from the monkey s top 100 monkey house favorites small part big movie you may have missed em i d be remiss if i failed to mention and did you know he narrated posted by mythical monkey at 7 50 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels review robert mitchum newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom vote for alternate oscars 1888 to 1909 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s search this blog what 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