Frozen River (blu ray)
…let Frozen River wash over you; let its bracing drama and the intensity of its acting restore your spirits as well as your faith in American independent film.
-Ken Turan
The winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance 2008, "Frozen River" is one of those rare independent films that knows precisely what it intends, and what the meaning of the story is.
-Ebert
This is a debut feature, though you'd never know it from the filmmaker's commandingly confident style, or from the heartbreaking beauty…
-Joe Morgenstern
Ms. Hunt’s eye for detail has the precision of a short story writer’s. She misses nothing…
-Stephen Holden
(pause)
If we're going to be honest, we need to look inside and ask ourselves: Do we really want to see a listless movie about a woman whose dream is to move into a double-wide trailer?
-Mick LaSalle, usually the worst movie critic in the business writes best review of his career.
Frozen River is my pick for Worst Movie of 2008
And biggest waste of a great Melissa Leo performance.
Shot on HD, likely using the iphone. Watch it on blu ray so you can see every detail of its terribleness.
posted by Mike @ 1:39 AM
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A note from Ms. Manohla Dargis in today's NY Times. Seemed appropriate to put as a comment on this entry. It's something that's been on my own mind for sometime. It's the ultimate pseudo-style for directors who have no actual style and wish to conceal that fact.
To: Filmmakers, especially under 40
From: M.D.
The tripod is your friend. Few filmmakers can pull off florid handheld camerawork because most aren’t saying all that much through their visuals, handheld or not. (Also: Shaking the camera does not create realism.) Though it’s a cliché of contemporary cinema, fiction and nonfiction both, handheld camerawork that calls aggressive attention to itself tends to make empty images seem even emptier.
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