#chris cooper

[haveyouseenthismovie-poll]

[thefugitivesaint]

Lonestar (1996) If you've never seen this finely crafted film I suggest that you seek it out and do so. I originally saw this in the theater when it was released back in '96 and I'm sure I didn't appreciate the deftness of the script, the seamless transitions that move the narrative from the present into the past and back again, nor the wonderful acting. As the stills here demonstrate, racial anxieties about American history, playing out here in a school meeting in Texas, are not new and contemporary right-wing attacks on how "history" is taught (and what "history" is the "correct" one) are as old as the public school system itself. While this scene might give the impression that the film is overly didactic, it's really not. The politics are foregrounded in a way that serves to compliment the overall narrative, one that digs into the past, how it affects the present, and how people live with it (or how we lie to ourselves about what came before us and what we've inherited). You also get to see Kris Kristofferson play a real POS.

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The Muppets (2011)

[texaschainsawmascara]

[gameofthunder66]

Me, Myself & Irene (2000) film

-watched 8/24/2023- 3 stars- on Netflixdvd

Thought I had seen this one before, but not so sure about that now.

[cinematicjourney]

Adaptation (2002) | dir. Spike Jonze

[nathalieskinoblog]

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11.22.63 (2016)

[boardchairman-blog]

**Shots of the Movie**

Little Women (2019)

Director: Greta Gerwig Cinematographer: Yorick Le Saux

[courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme]

Little Women (2019, Greta Gerwig)

27/09/2024

[theoscarsproject]

Matewan (1987). A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Movies about American unions, particularly American unions in coal country, are remarkably common, but few manage the level of grit, honesty and hope that Matewan does. What a great film! Really drums home the resilience of this community and the challenges of unifying workers when those at the top are all too willing to exploit differences of race, gender and class in order to divide. Just a great, well-made film. 8/10.

[fayevalcntine]

How come it feels the same? I don't know. It just feels good. Always did.

Lone Star (1996), directed by John Sayles

[feeling-through-film]

October Sky (1999)

That's a good idea. Four unidentifiable high school students lost their lives early this morning when their toy rocket exploded.

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Adaptation. (2002) Spike Jonze

November 26th 2024

[bkenber]

Spike Jonze's 'Where the Wild Things Are' Deserves Another Look

Back when I saw it in 2009, Spike Jonze’s take on Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” proved to be one of the few movies which I felt really dealt with real kids instead of the cliched ones which inhabit far too many motion pictures. Here, we get a young boy who has quite a vivid imagination which he retreats to when the real world becomes too scary to deal with, and who comes from a…

[dabiconcordia]

Snow Falling

The wonderful snow is falling Over river and woodland and wold; The trees bear spectral blossom In the moonshine blurr'd and cold.

There's a beautiful garden in Heaven; And these are the banished flowers, Falling and driven and drifted Into this dark world of ours. By John James Piatt