Movies that destroy landmarks
Why do so many movies destroy some of our most cherished national monuments and iconic buildings?
March 20, 2013
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Why do so many movies destroy some of our most cherished national monuments and iconic buildings?
Highly Recommended Anna Karenina is the latest adaptation to be filmed of Leo Tolstoy’s classic and acclaimed novel. This time around the film auteur and director bringing it all together for the big-screen is none other than the spectacularly gifted Joe Wright ( Pride and Prejudice , Atonement ), who brings with him an unusual and unique approach to the source material by turning it into …
Skip It The Movie: There was some local interest among my friends regarding the film Playing for Keeps .
Recommended The Movie: In the early 80s, divorce suddenly became a big subject in the media, particularly when it involved couples with kids. Irreconcilable Differences , released in 1984, addressed not only the divorce of parents but of their daughter filing for legal divorce, or emancipation, from them as well. The movie begins with what was the biggest moment in the trailer and other …
Highly Recommended THE FILM I must confess to never having seen director Joseph Losey’s mid-career debacles (or masterpieces; depends on whose take you listen to) Modesty Blaise (1966) or Boom! (1968), but judging from what I’ve read and heard regarding those films, Losey — an expat German who fled the Nazis and made films in the U.S., the U.K., and France over a long and unusually varied …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The 1941 winner of the Best Picture Oscar, How Green Was My Valley is one of John Ford’s nostalgic tributes to a foreign land and a foreign time. Narrated from a modern vantage point, but set in a Welsh mining village at the outset of the 20th Century, the …
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s rare to find a film as sincere and assured in its emotional intent as Ann Hui’s celebrated A Simple Life
James Bond’s 50th anniversary film was a phenomenal hit in the cinema, even by 007 standards – and fair enough.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution. Rarely does a modern horror film fill me with the kind of dread that makes pedestrian scenes feel ripe for a jolt
Highly Recommended The Movie: “To a handful of unforgettable motion picture triumphs, Elia Kazan now adds an event of the first magnitude… the powerful, smoldering story of the New South… of the wild river that captured the attention of the entire world…