It’s the first week of July, let us walk you through some of the film highlights this week.
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The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw on looking back at Omar Sharif’s as a legend of Old Hollywood:
Sharif’s career is that of an extremely intelligent and capable actor who had built up a substantial following in the Egyptian film world before breaking into Hollywood, an English-languaged industry, which perhaps didn’t quite know what to do with him: not sufficiently clean-cut to be a conventional romantic lead, too charismatic to be a second-string character-player, and maybe too engaging to be the bad guy. He had enormous style — a man born to be captured by the camera.
THR’s Graeme McMillan on the tendency that the new ‘Star Wars’ movie will be stuck in the past:
To many fans, this renewed focus is a good thing. With the original Star Wars trilogy remaining the motherlode of what Star Wars should be – without the awkward dialogue and overuse of CGI that plagued the 1990s/2000s prequel trilogy. Certainly, those were the more charming movies of the series. With the upcoming slate though there’s a risk of turning Star Wars into something that it was clearly never meant to be — a story so concerned with respecting its own history and mythology that it forgets to move forward and surprise its audience.
New York Times AO Scott on how this year’s comic-con is a triumph for women:
Joy in ‘Inside Out’ is an allegory of Comic-Con and of what it has come to represent in its 45 years of existence. The short version is this: A bunch of oddballs — nerds and fanboys, toy collectors and cosplayers, gamers and fantasists — invaded the mainstream and planted themselves at the vital center of the entertainment industry. You can complain about that (I sometimes do), but it has happened. Lately, though, something else has been happening — a shift in the ecosystem of fandom symbolized not only by “Sadness” but also by another new addition to the Comic-Con costume repertory: “Imperator Furiosa”, the crew-cut, one-armed avenger played by Charlize Theron in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. Furiosa’s presence amid the Disney princesses and Manga pixies is an especially potent sign of the feminism that is a big part of this event.
Indiewire’s Peter Broderick on ‘Tangerine’ as a trigger for the Digital Filmmaking Revolution:
Baker will inspire the next generation of independent filmmakers. Deciding to shoot “Tangerine” on the iPhone was both a pragmatic choice and a serious aesthetic decision. He realized he couldn’t make the film he really wanted to any other way. “Tangerine” will also show emerging filmmakers that it is possible to make truly ambitious films on a micro-budget. The achievement of the film is consistent across the board. The acting, writing, cinematography, directing, sound and music are all first-rate, making for a fast, funny and moving experience.
The Telegraph’s Simon Heffer on the wonderful restoration of the classic film ‘Hue and Cry’:
If anything, the effect is even more remarkable with black and white films. We are now so used to seeing these as the lowest form of cinematic life – with their blurred edges, crackles and fuzzines, that when they are transformed by digitization the results are stunning. “Colorizing” films may help those with limited imagination to realize what the director saw when black and white films were made, but it takes the film away from the intentions of the director, who made a film that would be seen in black and white, not in colour. Digitization does re-create the black and white film the director wanted his audience to see, but now they see it with a timelessness, clarity, and immediacy directors of 60 or 70 years ago could never have imagined.
A few more to call it a week:
- Sion Sono’s new film ‘The Virgin Psychics’ released full trailer
- Variety’s Guy Lodge reviews Kim Ki-Duk’s eco-thriller inspired by Fukushima nuclear tragedy in Karlovy Film Festival
- ‘Bob and the Trees’ wins big at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival
- Venice, Toronto and Telluride will lead the Fall Festival season
- Biggest budget Indian film of all time braces for weekend release
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