ON THE SILVER SCREEN: LIFE'S NOT FAIR FOR "THE PRINCESS OF MONTPENSIER"
By Brian Lafferty May 6, 2011 (San Diego) – The Princess of Montpensier is a movie that demands your utmost attention. I barely wrote down any notes out of fear I’d miss something important. The...
View ArticleON THE SILVER SCREEN: MEDITATION OF LIFE
By Brian Lafferty June 10, 2011 (San Diego) – The Tree of Life isn’t merely a movie. To call it an experience would be putting it mildly. It’s films like this that make me say, “This is why I go to...
View ArticleON THE SILVER SCREEN: TWO FOR THE ROAD
By Brian Lafferty July 9, 2011 (San Diego) – The Trip is a Reader’s Digest condensed version of the hit British TV sitcom of the same name. Normally sitcoms and cinema go as well together as peanut...
View ArticleON THE SILVER SCREEN: LIFE'S EPIC "MYSTERIES"
By Brian Lafferty September 23, 2011 (San Diego) – A few years ago I watched the 1959 version of Ben-Hur. I sat in my seat mesmerized, so hooked that I did not take a single break during the entire...
View ArticleON THE SILVER SCREEN: GROSS ANATOMY
By Brian Lafferty October 7, 2011 (San Diego) – The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) is a challenging movie not just in content but also in making me think about my response to it. It’s so easy for...
View ArticleON THE SILVER SCREEN: THE GOLD BRUSH
By Brian Lafferty October 7, 2011 (San Diego) – The Mill and the Cross is one of the year’s most original films. That’s not something I’ve been able to say a lot this year…or last year, for that...
View ArticleON THE SILVER SCREEN: THE "WEEKEND" OF THE AFFAIR
By Brian Lafferty October 14, 2011 (San Diego) – Weekend is not to be confused with the 1967 Jean-Luc Godard film by the same name. This Weekend, a British import, is in some ways like a Henry Jaglom...
View ArticleON THE SILVER SCREEN: YOU CAN'T GO WEST AGAIN
By Brian Lafferty October 14, 2011 (San Diego) – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ended on a famous freeze frame shot. It was right up there with the famous shot of Antoine Doinel looking at the...
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