There is a moment at the start of the movie in which the spaceship crew has to make a difficult decision: Whether they should change their course to the Sun in order to approach a lost spaceship. They discuss the pros and cons, and finally one of them suggests to vote. The answer from another …Continue Reading
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ (1968) marked the start of a new kind of sci-fi movies, more realistic and philosophical, of which ‘Solaris’ is an example; but anyone looking for the stunning, smooth narrative of Kubrick’s classic in Tarkovsky’s film will be disappointed. And yet they share the will to explore the limits of knowledge and …Continue Reading
Many people may think that “Memento” (2000) is Nolan’s debut, but he actually made his first movie two years earlier, shot in black and white in London and with a budget of only $6000. The film ‘follows’ an aspiring young writer (played by Jeremy Theobald) who gets involved with an unusual burglar, Cobb (Alex Haw), …Continue Reading
‘Source Code’ has been defined as ‘Inception’ meets ‘Groundhog Day’ plus quantum physics. But while these are clear influences to the movie (as also are ‘Run Lola Run’ or even ‘Avatar’), the second feature film by Duncan Jones (‘Moon’) stands on its own thanks to its unpretentious, smart sense of entertainment. The premise is certainly …Continue Reading
Like ‘Half Nelson’ and Laurent Cantet’s ‘The Class’, ‘Detachment’ tries to take a more realistic look at high school, focusing on teachers and students as real people, with flaws and virtues. Here the main character is a substitute teacher, Henry Barthes (Adrien Brody), who starts working at a public school where his colleagues are burned …Continue Reading
