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Shutter Island – Film Review
Posted on19. Feb, 2010 by Administrator.
by Todd Gilchrist Martin Scorsese is the filmmaker who maybe more than any in the medium’s history brought cinephilia to the mainstream, and it’s this enormous legacy of inspiration, influence, and cinematic subtext that he has embedded in his body of work which makes Shutter Island so hard to talk about. Superficially about a U.S. [...]
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Revolutionary Road Film Review
Posted on22. Jan, 2009 by Administrator.
by Todd Gilchrist As a colleague of mine joked after a recent screening of Revolutionary Road, “this film really blows the lid off of suburban repression in the 1950s!” Indeed, Sam Mendes’ latest film revisits some of the territory covered in his directorial debut, the Academy Award-winning American Beauty, particularly the undercurrent of dysfunction and [...]