Posts Tagged ‘Guillermo Arriaga’
Babel (2006)
Written by Colin on March 31, 2008 – 8:46 am -
Towering triumph
Superb. Just out-and-out superb. If you came for a scene-by-scene deconstruction and to hear how utterly pretentious it is, look away now. Regular readers will know that I have the attention span of a not-too-bright goldfish when it comes to films over ninety minutes long, but this one is two and a half hours or thereabouts and I don’t believe there was a single foot of film wasted. I am in serious danger of sounding like a union representative for the Spanish Film Council, having recently given The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005) such a blinding review, but the writing and direction are so tight and fresh that I believe we should hand the film industry to Spain for a few years.
Tags: Adriana Barraza, Babel, Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Guillermo Arriaga, Rinko Kikuchi, Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
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The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2005)
Written by Colin on March 11, 2008 – 1:42 pm -
Grave business
Having missed this at the cinema I was pleasantly surprised to find a DVD copy nestling in the ‘three DVDs for whatever’ section of one of my local outlets. I have no idea why it was consigned to nestle alongside Eddie Murphy’s Norbit (2007) and Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals (1977) (no, really). This is a film I would have happily paid full price for, and still have thought I’d got a bargain.
Tags: Barry Pepper, Chris Menges, Guillermo Arriaga, Julio César Cedillo, Texan, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Tommy Lee Jones
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