Also loved it! Seeing The Artist tonight.
Thanks,
MD
On Jan 21, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Kirby McDaniel <ki...@movieart.net> wrote:
> Finally I saw this Christmas release.
>
> I was a little underwhelmed in some respects and quite overwhelmed in others.
> It's a 3D film that must be seen in 3D. Scorsese uses 3D in an intelligent
> way to
> try to capture some of the magic at the birth of cinema. The art direction,
> set decoration, photography,
> movement, blocking, staging, and
> production values are at once grand and astonishing. It's worth seeing for
> that alone.
>
> As a kids' film, it is a little too grown-up, I think. For age 10 and above.
> Not that there is anything objectionable in it; I just wonder if it can
> hold the attention of a young kid. It is not short. In fact, it may be a
> little
> too long for someone who is not absolutely enthralled with the subject, but
> that would not include me.
>
> The movie is Professor Scorsese's ticket to impart his rapturous love
> of early cinema. He tries, with remarkable success, to dramatize the
> mechanical world of the early 20th century using 3D to make it all come
> alive and to lionize the tinkerers, chemists, cameramen and directors who
> literally invented
> moving pictures.
>
> As a testament to Scorsese's abilities as a director especially his power
> to harness vision within an enormous production, the film is impressive.
>
> Seeing this movie on TV in 2D will be almost like missing it.
> It's a movie-lovers movie and it is large.
>
> How was I perhaps a little underwhelmed? The Cinema is
> the star of this movie. This is not a star-turn picture. The acting is good,
> but Scorsese never lets these actors, with the exception of Sacha
> Baron-Cohen, whom
> he doesn't seem able to control entirely,
> get anywhere near stealing this picture. In this sense, the film is the
> polar opposite
> of a movie like TREE OF LIFE where the actors are unleashed to carry the film
> or
> MONEYBALL which is old fashioned Brad Pitt movie star stuff cooked to
> perfection.
>
> K.
>
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