Haiku about Film
Film reviews seen in/ Japanese poetry form/ Brevity at best.
Sunday, December 27, 2015
The Boda Boda Thieves, Donald Mugisha, Uganda/Germany, (2015)
Mean streets parable-
Weaving through dearth, race & age:
Soundtrack, sights are grand.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Fractured Land, Damien Gillis & Fiona Rayher, Canada, (2015)
Fights from Treaty 8
Young Caleb Behn; Under seige
He fears for his life.
Sunday, December 13, 2015
The Second Mother (Que Horas Ela Volta?), Anna Muylaert, Brazil, (2015).
Social contract flips,
Brazilian celeb shines
Through layers of "Mom".
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg, USA, (2015).
Values trump Cold War:
Grim Berlin / Suave U.S.A.
With 2 five star leads.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
The Man in the High Castle, Season 1, Ridley Scott, USA, (2015)
Hitler takes U.S.?
Sepia & mystery,
With fab set design.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Containment, Robb Moss and Peter Galison, USA, (2015).
Sludge is forever.
All hundred million gallons.
For ten thousand years.
Friday, December 4, 2015
The Stanford Prison Experiment, Kyle Patrick Alverez, USA, (2015).
Power does corrupt,
Unconscious is ugly.
One sane voice: Woman.
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Argentina, Carlos Saura, Spain/France/Argentina, (2015)
High profile folklore-
With movement & aesthetics;
The culture of music is.
Sunday, November 22, 2015
Tough Love ("Harte), Rosa Von Praunheim, Germany, (2015).
Incested turned pimp
And renowned karate champ;
True survivor's tale.
Sunday, November 15, 2015
The Dinner, Ivano de Matteo, Italy, (2014).
All star Italian,
No one....but all are guilty:
Ethics & Justice.
Friday, November 13, 2015
Suffragette, Sarah Gavron, UK, (2015)
No rights for women!
"I'd rather be a rebel";
London, Nineteen twelve.
Timbuktu (Le Chagrin Des Oiseaux), Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritania, (2014)
Jihad in Mali;
Precise, widescreen resistance:
Where is God in this?
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Embrace of the Serpent, Ciro Guerra, Columbia, (2015).
Power exploited:
Lament for a lost wisdom,
Widescreen Amazon.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Borealis, Sean Garrity, Canada, (2015)
Gambling is a bitch;
Sean makes it warm and funny;
As with blindness, grief.
The Palio di Siena, Cosima Spender, Italy/UK, (2015)
Race of corruption,
Lover of horses beware;
Hysterical sport.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Disorder (Maryland), Alice Winocour, France, (2015).
Creeping fear, beauty,
Soundscape, and PTSD.
That's about it, folks!
Louder than Bombs, Joachim Trier (2015), Norway
Men can't talk, that's all!
Photos define the structure,
Of loss, memory.......
Friday, October 30, 2015
Mavis!, Jessica Edwards, USA, (2015).
An artist to love!
"Why am I treated so bad?"
This soldier of love.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
The End of the Tour, James Ponsoldt, USA, (2015).
Human condition:
Bleek skies. Layered doubt. Blurred lines;
A story within.
Friday, September 25, 2015
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, OZ TV series, (2012- )
Period Melbourne,
History, crime, and much fun.
Drop dead Fabulous.
Friday, September 18, 2015
ANZAC Girls, Australia TV mini Series,
Girls in a bloodbath?
in Gallipolli Campaign:
WW 1 and Oz.
Friday, September 11, 2015
The Croods, Chris Sanders, USA (2013).
Fight or flight goes deep.
"Who said survival is fun?"
As ideas win out.
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Love is the Perfect Crime, Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu, Frech-Swiss (2013)
Winter chill, Film Noir.
Disociated teacher,
Drawn to deep snow holes.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Partisan, Ariel Kleiman, Australia (2015)
Trapped by mind control,
And churning out child killers.
Disturbing thriller.
Sunday, August 30, 2015
GETT: The Trial of Viviane Amsalam, Shlomi & Ronit Elkabetz, Israel (2015)
We've come a long way.
Baby, you don't matter when,
Rabbi's voice is law.
Sunday, August 16, 2015
Strangerland. Kim Farrant, USA/Australia (2015)
Feel the grit and sweat:
Two kids lost in the desert,
With secrets and lies.
Friday, June 12, 2015
A Most Violent Year, J.C. Chandor, US, (2015)
American Dream?
Not without fraud, loot, and shark;
I know. I'm sorry.
Monday, June 8, 2015
Citizenfour, Laura Poitras, US (2014)
We'll be watching you:
Live history in action.
Ed's not the story.
Monday, June 1, 2015
Grace and Frankie, US, (2015)
Spanx, soul, sap, sex, silly:
Seventy the new fifty.
Four Holloywood stars.
Sunday, May 24, 2015
Easy Money, Daniel Espinosa, Sweden (2010)
Three men and their girls,
Messy Swedish gangdom,
Where no one is bad.
Sunday, May 3, 2015
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, Felix Herngren, Sweden, (2015)
Life can be random:
And better than Forrest Gump;
Swedishly funny.
Sunday, April 26, 2015
The Green Prince, Nadav Schirman, Germany (2014)
Spy and his handler:
Unexpected sacrifice;
Blurred lines. Neutral stand.
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Omar m'a tuer. Roschdy Zem, France (2011)
Investigate truth-
Of corrupt and racist France:
Immigrant made slave.
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
The Second Best Marigold Hotel, John Madden, UK (2015)
Second time around,
Geriatric comedy:
Not even funny.
Sunday, March 29, 2015
The Immigrant, James Gray, US (2014)
Pimping of the weak,
20's New York, and it's bleak:
Immaculate whore.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
A Balcony by the Sea, Nicole Garcia, France (2010)
In a lost past time:
Algeria, France, and fraud;
Unrequited Love.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Mr Turner, Mike Leigh, US (2014)
Shots framed as canvas.
Grunting, groping, genius:
The painter of light.
Sunday, February 22, 2015
Belle, UK, Amma Asanta, (2013)
Good frock flick, but more:
With soul mate fights slavery:
Through fraud in
Zong
case.
Birdman, Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu, UK (2014)
Edit points concealed.
With every trick in the book.
Sad, funny, and deep.
Monday, February 9, 2015
The Imitation Game, Morten Tyldum, UK, (2014)
Three tenses at once,
Shame to all who moralize!
The story well told.
Sunday, February 8, 2015
American Sniper, Clint Eastwood, USA (2014)
Sheep, wolf, and sheepdog,
Reduced to a stock cliche:
Karma is a bitch.
Sunday, January 25, 2015
The Intouchables, Oliver Nakache & Eric Toledano, France (2011)
Thirty-one awards.
Never laugh at a cripple.
They do, and it works.
Saturday, January 24, 2015
The First Grader, Justin Chadwick, UK (2011)
Whitewashed history,
The Mau Mau fought for freedom,
Then to read as well.
Saturday, January 17, 2015
Selma, Ava DuVernay, USA (2015)
Piercing to the heart,
Snubbed by White Academy;
Still so far to go.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Wentworth, Australia Crime Drama, Seasons 2013, 2014
Relentless power,
Victimized inside and out.
Girls need to watch out.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Gone Girl, David Fincher, US, (2014)
Sociopath wife,
Whose game is it anyways?
Almost perfect crimes.
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Homeland, Howard Gordon, US TV Series, Seasons 3 & 4, (2013-14)
Trip over Egos,
Too arrogant to notice:
Foreign policy.
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