If you haven’t noticed, it’s unlikely we will post any more detailed, comprehensive, elaborate posts about the media that appeared in 2007. But there’s this post. Which is slightly comprehensive (at least on the music side of things).
Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters by the Twilight Sad is the best album of 2007. Original, new, brilliant, [...]
In Bruges is one of the most seriously misunderstood and underrated movies in recent memory. Other critics have blasted its misogynistic, racist and xenophobic undertones. What these critics fail to realize is that this is a movie about two Irish hitmen lying low in Bruges,Belgium after a job. The movie, written and directed by [...]
“It’s interesting to be nominated for Best Director, Best Editing, Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay, but not Best Picture. I don’t know what else you have to do to make a picture.”
- Julian Schnabel, director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. (In good humor he followed with, “But it’s all good . . .” 
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3:10 to Yuma has two of the finest actors in recent memory, Russell Crowe and Christian Bale bring an intellectual sang froid and a brooding intensity to their respective roles, both delivering Oscar worthy performances. Sadly, this movie does not deserve lead performances of such caliber. Apparently, nobody showed up to work aside from Crowe [...]
There was blood. And great, groundbreaking film making. Paul Thomas Anderson does not make movies, he makes symphonies, scoring themes and grand ideas with his characters and their stories. He is also the farthest thing from a typical Hollywood director, straying from both the lowest common denominator Michael Bay esque school of thinking and the [...]
That was beautiful.
That was the resonating thought I had while the credits began to roll after Julian Schnabel’s French film, “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly;” based on Jean-Dominique Bauby’s memoir, Le Scaphandre et le papillon.
That was beautiful, as a beautiful metaphor and images are shown behind the French credits.
That was beautiful, as Joe Strummer’s [...]
If you are human, have cognitive abilities, and a warm heart, you will love this movie.
It may help if you’ve read the book, too.
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I did read Khaled Hosseini’s wonderful, joyous, and sorrowful novel, The Kite Runner, before I saw Marc Forster’s film of the same name. David Benioff has done an excellent job of adapting [...]
This will be brief and quick, and not full.
When I think of the movie trailers that advertised 2007 movies, three trailers/films come to mind.
‘American Gangster.’ This is obvious. Two huge movie stars and Jay-Z blaring in the background. Don’t forget the dramatic gun drop, though.
‘The Darjeeling Limited.’ One of the year’s quirkiest and best, Wes [...]
One of the most prominent faults of indie movies as a genre is the tendency to choose quirk and hip irony instead of telling stories about real people not cute caricatures. Juno works despite the fact that it comes sugarcoated with a layer of indie cuteness. At the end of the day, Juno is still [...]
The one lonely soul that actually reads this site is going to be a journalism major, hold your laughter, therefore he will most likely be madly in love with the concept of full disclosure. While we here at TSV lean more wannabe Lester Bangs than psuedo Seymour Hersh, I shall provide that disclosure to the [...]
The trailer for American Gangster was a truly awe inspiring affair. It has a drama, a tension and vivid energy that the film for the most part lacks. All throughout the movie I could not help but imagine how this material might have been interpreted by a more capable director, a Scorcese or a Coppola [...]
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