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A Netflix Odyssey with Eric: Tom DiCillo’s “Living in Oblivion”
While movies about making movies have been done countless times, I don’t think I have ever seen one that celebrates the human error involved in the filmmaking process as much as Living in Oblivion. The movie takes place on one day of shooting, as director Nick Reve (Steve Buscemi) tries to perservere shooting his own [...]
A Netflix Odyssey With Eric: “Edge of Darkness” (the original BBC version)
As highly regarded as this serial is, I had never heard of it until the Mel Gibson remake of the same name was about to come out this past January. I decided that the plot sounded interesting enough, and ordered up the original BBC version. Released in six parts, Edge of Darkness was first a [...]
Netflix Odyssey With Eric: Nicolas Refn’s “Bronson”
Like Antichrist, this was another movie I was really looking forward to seeing in theaters but, for whatever reason, was never able to. I had long heard the hype surrounding this movie, with much of the focus on actor Tom Hardy’s performance, who plays the title role in the film. Before diving into the rest [...]
Netflix Odyssey With Eric: Lars von Trier’s “Antichrist”
Back when this movie was given a limited run last fast, it was one of the few movies out that I had a strong interest to go see. However, none of the theaters near my area were playing it, so I ended up giving it a pass. News of an American DVD was pretty nill [...]
Netflix Odyssey With Eric: Jean Cocteau’s “Orphée”
The myth of Orpheus has been adapted to the screen countless times, possibly most famously in the 1959 Brazillian movie, Black Orpheus. The reason for this myth’s popularity could be the doorway it provides filmmakers with in order to explore themes relating to the artist and how the artist interacts with the world around him/herself. [...]
A Netflix Odyssey With Eric: Carl Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc”
The story behind Dreyer’s 1928 movie chronicling Joan of Arc’s heresy trial is in iteself sordid and interesting enough to merit a film of it’s own. When first released, the movie was considered too controversial, and was pulled from release. Shortly thereafter, a film lab fire destroyed the original print of Dreyer’s movie. Dreyer, unwavering [...]
Netflix Odyssey With Eric: Jean-Luc Godard’s “Band of Outsiders”
Like many, I first heard about this movie because Quentin Tarantino’s production company is named after it (A Band Apart is basically just the English version of this movie’s French title, Bande à Part). Yet, it still took me years to actually get around to watching it, so here are my thoughts: The story concerns [...]
A Netflix Odyssey With Eric: Peter Weir’s “The Truman Show”
Although almost universally known and respected as a leading funnyman, Jim Carrey has done his share of serious movies. Some good (Man on the Moon, Eternal Sunshine) and others, well, not so much (The Number 23). The Truman Show is between the two. It’s serious, but not in the Ingmar Bergman sense of the word; [...]
Netflix Odyssey With Eric: Kevin Smith’s “Zack and Miri Make a Porno”
I’ve been a fan of Kevin Smith’s movies for several years now, but for some reason I never got around to seeing Zack and Miri during its theatrical run… or any time afterward. I didn’t really have high expectations for this movie, but after hearing good news about it, I finally decided to check the [...]
Netflix Odyssey With Eric: John Boorman’s “The General”
Director John Boorman has certainly had an interesting career, having directed great movies like Point Blank and Deliverance, to really shoddy productions like Exorcist II: The Heretic (I have not seen Exorcist II, but it has a 3.5 standing on IMDB). The General, made in 1998, is Boorman’s biopic of the infamous Irish robber Martin [...]