Tag: movie review
Scene On Film: 'Emperor'
By Joan Ellis
Is there a time or a place more compelling than Japan in 1945?
The Japanese had surrendered four years after bombing Pearl Harbor. Hiroshima...
Scene On Film: 'Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013'
By Joan Ellis
Have you rushed to your nearest theater to see Oscar Nominated Short Films 2013?
Of course not. It’s a given for all of us...
Scene On Film: 'Side Effects'
By Joan Ellis
Side Effects plays games with us. Steven Soderbergh knows well that audiences love to figure out the director’s game plan and with...
Scene On Film: 'Zero Dark Thirty'
By Joan Ellis
Zero Dark Thirty has become a current event.
Who but director Kathryn Bigelow and writer Mark Boal would have tackled the daunting challenge...
Scene On Film: 'Quartet'
By Joan Ellis
How often do you see a nearly perfect movie? Quartet is just that.
First credit goes to Dustin Hoffman who exploded into our...
Scene On Film: 'Django Unchained'
By Joan Ellis
Pulp Fiction was an exciting innovation; Inglourious Basterds was a masterpiece. But hasn’t Quentin Tarantino crossed the line in Django Unchained (wonderful title) by targeting...
Scene On Film: 'Hyde Park on Hudson'
By Joan Ellis
Hyde Park on Hudson is an unexpected pleasure. Despite the extraordinary tension between England and America in 1939, director Roger Michell focuses...
Scene On Film: 'Amour'
By Joan Ellis
Amour has arrived on a wave of superlatives. Critics, who I suspect may be quite young, have hailed it as a masterful...
Scene On Film: 'Silver Linings Playbook'
By Joan Ellis
The comically dysfunctional family in Silver Linings Playbook has no villains, and that happy circumstance leaves us free to enjoy the dysfunction.
Within...
Scene On Film: 'Lincoln'
By Joan Ellis
Rarely has a slice of American history been delivered with such panache. Based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, Lincoln is driven...
