Here we are, a first for Momentary Cinema: ranking movies of a director. Well, the thing is that I absolutely adore the work of Hayao Miyazaki - the legendary artist, animator, writer and director from Japan - so it is not an easy task to rank his 12 feature films from worst to best. Anyway, … Continue reading Hayao Miyazaki’s Movies Ranked
Tag: Escapism
The Two Reviews: Top End Wedding and Red Joan
Top End Wedding (2019, Universal Pictures) Directed by Wayne Blair. Featuring Miranda Tapsell, Gwilym Lee, Kerry Fox, Huw Higginson & Ursula Yovich. This Australian comedy is a delight. It has a mostly Indigenous cast and crew, including writers and director, and proudly displays a uniquely Indigenous good-humour as well as personal journeys into staying true … Continue reading The Two Reviews: Top End Wedding and Red Joan
Appraising the Art of Anderson. Wesley Wales Anderson
‘I like cooking up extra ideas to add to the sets and costumes, and inventing an imaginary world. But what I'm more inspired by is something that happened to me or someone in my life who had a strong effect on me, or a novel, short story, play, or a movie where the characters moved … Continue reading Appraising the Art of Anderson. Wesley Wales Anderson
Escaping This World Through Film
In an increasingly bewildering modern world, where any means of engagement with it likely leads to further bewilderment and short-term depression (possibly long-term too), the populist fervor for escape could not be greater. Whether that escape may be to sit by a babbling brook and read Fifty Shades of Grey, or to climb to the … Continue reading Escaping This World Through Film