Epinions Recent Reviews for Pffrdfdus7

Haxan: A Mockumentary for the Ages

Mon, 8 Dec 2008 20:05:28 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) is rife with so much fantastic imagery that finding material to initialize a textual discourse on the film poses no problem but rather narrowing down the right approach...

Eraserhead: Fear, Desire and Consequence

Fri, 12 May 2006 14:54:12 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Spoiler Warning in Effect Fusing the nightmares of children to haunted parental grief in a gothic theater of the absurd, and welded to a grotesque fantasia in the industrial German expressionistic mold, David Lynch’s Eraserhead (1977)...

The Seventh Continent (Siebente Kontinent, Der): The Seventh Continent: We are the robots

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 15:05:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Spoiler Warning in Effect Michael Haneke’s The Seventh Continent (1989) firmly exhibits the Austrian director’s roots as a filmmaker of uncompromising authority and intelligence, but is chiefly important as the first of many...

Ju Dou: The Cruelty of Paradise

Wed, 18 May 2005 18:28:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Slight Spoiler Warning in Effect Zhang Yimou and Yang Fengliang’s Ju Dou is about a number of socio-political and cultural concerns but it works best as the vessel in the miserable canals of existential heartache exploring the nature of...

Lost in Graduation: Garden State

Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:43:35 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Obvious and simplistic, Zach Braff’s Garden State is not so much disappointing as it is a fulfillment of the directorial debut that smells of the pretension and inadequacy plaguing eager, young would-be-auteurs. Reminding in some ways of...

The Dishonorable Truth: Fahrenheit 9/11

Tue, 29 Jun 2004 15:58:20 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - “Though the odd opinions and extravagant actions enthusiasm has run men into, were enough to warn them against this wrong principle, so apt to misguide them both in their belief and conduct; yet the love of something extraordinary, the ease and glory...

Troy: With All Things Immoderation

Wed, 19 May 2004 17:26:15 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Unapologetic and base about its Hollywood ideas of flesh idolization, Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy takes expensive missteps with an old hat yarn of raw masculinity and barbarism by stripping itself of the requisite prurience and gore, opting for...

Ich gehe ins Kino gern: Good bye, Lenin!

Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:52:50 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - A strangely warming treatise on parental and child relationships within national chaos, Wolfgang Becker’s Good bye, Lenin! transcends its saccharine qualities with peculiar ingenuousness and curious characters but more so its effective...

To Kill is to Love: Kill Bill: Volume 2

Sat, 17 Apr 2004 05:27:58 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Where Kill Bill: Volume 1 ended with a dizzying bang, a clandestine revelation and an uncertain future, Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill: Volume 2 finalizes on a disparate note, obviously more conclusive, and initially alarming but warming...

The Misandrist’s Quandary: Mona Lisa Smile

Mon, 15 Mar 2004 03:27:50 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Naturally and lazily passed off as something of a sister companion to Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society, Mike Newell’s frowning malcontent about pedigree complacency, Mona Lisa Smile, is to be considered in its own precise echelon for...

Manufacturing Cloned Phlegm: My Boss’s Daughter

Tue, 2 Mar 2004 04:20:31 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - David Zucker’s first train wreck of 2003 (the second being the gravely catastrophic Scary Movie 3) centers on a train wreck of a comedic performer (Ashton Kutcher) apparently playing it straight with lunkhead conviction (or attempting to)...

Arrested Development: Capturing the Friedmans

Tue, 17 Feb 2004 21:03:46 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - The function, and subsequently the construction, of the contemporary documentary has consistently tended to fulfill some sort of social-political agenda by presenting kinds of cautionary tales usually under banners of allegedly unflinching, unbiased...

Sushi-king Express: Lost in Translation

Wed, 4 Feb 2004 17:17:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Cogitated and authored from what seems to ostensibly be a personal peregrination experienced through the mildly infamous child of nepotism-cum-director/rock-sta
r-director’s
wife Sofia Coppola’s own sense of place in relation to her slight status of...

The Lord Who Would be King: The Return of the King

Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:04:21 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - The Lord of the Rings, the series whole, almost inimitable on nearly every scale, is rapidly becoming the crowning achievement of our modern American mainstream cinema epoch, whereas its counterpart of 2003, The Matrix series, has...

Post-Production Perdition: The Matrix: Revolutions

Mon, 15 Dec 2003 19:15:22 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Simultaneously, the last two chapters in The Matrix trilogy have been comprised of both significant cinematic innovations and alarmingly rudimentary ones, which are often so much at odds with one another that these latter films are eventually...

Identity Theft: The Human Stain

Sat, 8 Nov 2003 01:55:17 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Robert Benton’s The Human Stain is an impossibly intrusive sobbing whine of a film that just won’t go away quietly with what micro-specks of dignity it has left, nor improve itself with obligatory audience applauses, no matter how bad it is and n...

Superdeconstructionist: the Life and Thoughts of Jacques Derrida

Thu, 16 Oct 2003 05:01:29 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - “Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: ‘here are our monsters’, without immediately turning the monsters into pets.” Kirby Dick’s and Amy Ziering Kofman’s Derrida oscillates between the comically mundane and the...

Kill Bill Volume 1: Kill Bill: Volume 1: The Reinvention of Chopsloitation

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:55:02 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - As quintessentially Tarantino as Quentin Tarantino can get, Kill Bill Vol.1 is also the film the most dissimilar to the manic director’s past work (the genre-referencing and genre-defining crime trilogy that is Reservoir Dogs, Pulp...

Once Upon a Time in Mexico: Sloppy Thirds: Once Upon a Time in Mexico

Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:34:42 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - With only its wonderfully caricatural final act and denouement as its principle virtues, one wonders if Robert Rodriguez is channeling only Sergio Leone's weave of showdowns and battles from his finales--and if by channeling we mean rendering homage yet...

Chaos Pronounced: Freddy vs. Jason

Wed, 20 Aug 2003 17:28:31 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - The very presence of Ronny Yu’s Freddy vs. Jason is so mind-boggling, gorgeous, terrible, a...

The Little Engine that Couldn’t: Seabiscuit

Mon, 11 Aug 2003 04:21:54 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Nearing its first act’s end, at long last, with the inevitable congregation of its main character...

The shivering of timbers: Pirates of the Caribbean

Fri, 18 Jul 2003 22:04:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - Eloquently verbose, chillingly extraordinary and distinctly more authentic in eliciting that innat...

Psychology and Smashing Things 101: Hulk

Tue, 8 Jul 2003 15:18:59 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - One of the more or less highly anticipated comic book adaptations in recent memory, Ang Lee’s H...

Sci-fi insects waging wars of biblical proportions: Plague Soundscapes

Mon, 23 Jun 2003 04:08:40 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 - A highly concentrated madness of encompassing atonal compositions bellowing the fury of hardcore p...

God has an anomalous sense of humor: Bruce Almighty

Fri, 30 May 2003 03:44:50 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author Pffrdfdus7 -

Manning its moral lighthouses with a creepy homeless man, mannequin-esque and complete with doomsday signs in hand (who later turns out to be something else, ironically, in the way of a Deus ex Machina, and just Deus), there’s little discovery...