10/25/2022 0 Comments Quotes from amigo by john sayle![]() ![]() What more is there to say? Love it or hate it, Steve McQueen’s slavery film is one of the hardest to watch yet beautifully composed films you’ll ever see. Sure, depending on your level of finicky attention to detail, you might be distracted by some elements that are purely poetic license, but it’s got a fantastic, debatable finale, and happens to be one of the most spectacular looking visual films of recent memory. Cuaron has given 2013 one of its most talked about films with Gravity, featuring a fantastic performance from (the unfortunately distracting looking) Sandra Bullock. QUOTES FROM AMIGO BY JOHN SAYLE HOW TOAmy Adams is delightful in a supporting role, and Jonze, as always, knows how to strike all the right notes of a harmonious, longing melancholy. It’s great to see Phoenix back in action, this being the lighter version of a man obsessed with his relationship to woman (as compared to his other 2013 role, the unreleased James Gray film, The Immigrant). ![]() Whatever your thoughts are on that, it’s an interesting commentary on the female voice in cinema, what that might be saying about genuine female agency, not to mention who the voice belongs to (Johansson stars in the title that tops my unreleased pics of the year, another role that excitingly explores the role of female as ‘other’ and ‘alien’ in a world where the choice of consuming her is her deadly weapon). Her – Spike Jonzeīeyond being one of the most touching and astute films to depict the perilous human need for warmth, affection and connection with others in a realistic near future where people are technologically over connected but more emotionally isolated than ever, Spike Jonze’s exhilarating new film has another equally interesting facet it’s lead actress, Scarlet Johansson in a voice only role that’s being hailed as one of the best female performances of the year. Jordan, Octavia Spencer, and Melonie Diaz, Coogler’s debut is an engaging and important cinematic achievement, and marks the beginning of a promising new voice in American filmmaking. ![]() Featuring stellar performances from Michael B. The only directorial debut on my list, Ryan Coogler, took home the top audience and critic’s prize at Sundance, for his emotional, well played reenactment of the last days in the life of a young man whose life is cut short. Without further ado, here are my Top Ten Films for 2013 commencing with my number 10 pick…: 10. The following ten selections are the best films I saw this year that also made it to theatrical release also this year. The characterization of the priest suggests that Sayles is anything but enraptured with institutional religion.Please note, the absence of titles like Spring Breakers, Paradise: Faith, Frances Ha, No, and The Place Beyond the Pines is due to the fact that I saw these in 2012 and considered them as some of the best ‘unreleased’ films of that year. The villagers are also stick figures, of a different sort. The Compton character tries to be fair-minded, but most of the other Americans are stereotypes - ignorant, crude, trigger-happy. The film is set in 1900, but Sayles makes it clear - none too subtly - that he also has in mind more recent American overseas conflicts by including a scene in which a character is waterboarded, and another in which the American commander actually employs the Vietnam-era phrase "hearts and minds." A deceitful Spanish priest (Yul Vázquez) serves as translator between the Americans and the villagers. The mayor, who tries to steer a middle course, comes under American pressure to reveal the whereabouts of the local guerrilla force, led by his brother.Ĭompton's hard-nosed commander (Chris Cooper, a Sayles regular) thinks the troops are becoming too cozy with the locals. "Amigo" is the tale of what befalls the amiable mayor (Joel Torre) of a small Philippine village in the wake of its occupation by U.S. imperialism with little to compensate in the way of character interest and genuine drama. QUOTES FROM AMIGO BY JOHN SAYLE MOVIEThe movie is a heavy-handed attack on U.S. In "Amigo," a story of the Philippine-American War, veteran filmmaker John Sayles allows his political convictions to get the better of him. ![]()
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