Malick's most religious or secular film, as Barthes noted, a work of art's interpretation lies open with the audience.

Upon the canvas of paradise, A.Payne presents a modern father at life's fold, dealing with a life tragedy while maintaining the bond of family. The film's tenor is serious with doses of comedy that soberly reminds about living with the universal joke played on all of us, in a temporal paradise or not.

Arguably the best soundtrack of the seventies and avatar.

By far, Scorsese's contribution is the most watchable and shaken alive out of all of the other segments.

In viewing this film now, it is interesting to see Scorsese's visual crossroads between his Catholic upbringing awash in living the life of an independent free thinking artist. Also glaring is remembering the conflated uproar held by the Church who saw this film as controversy but if they watched the conclusion, minor intellectual 'souls' should have seen that their fight was as sheer as that of a shroud.

Thriller "Airport" books often lack the level of prose found in literature, are heavy with exposition and constructed to be a better visual narrative. The Swedish title, Men who Hate Women for the book could be reversed here, a young girl with no agency who hacks to regain.The linear investigative narrative pace is akin to Zodiac's rather than Fincher's kinetic films, nevertheless his cinematic artistry is reflected.

Similar to the achievements of vanguard cinema from the past, "Somewhere" successfully transfixes the viewer away from the apparatus of their own life's narrative(s) and onto the grid of another, here, via a director whose affective stylistics allows the viewer to bathe in long shots and a unreliable narrative of which considering todays situational cinema is a gift that allows a better viewer-response experience.

Since it is not listed, I am using this very popular film to comment on another film, "La Mission" Written and directed by the star's brother, Peter Bratt's film is a nod to one of my favorite genres, "Lowrider cinema", but he plays it way too safe, not pushing the genre by using a very formulaic and predictable story arc. Despite is overall failings, it is nice to see this genre in the multiplex these days.

Like watching a Sartre play. Brilliant and coarse.

I could not wait for this blu-ray of a personal favorite from JLG's cannon. I love the meta-narrative, the movie within a movie conflation with Joan of Arc. Like Resnais, Godard here exemplifies a woman without agency in search of the self, fighting the forces of paternity that eventually swallows her after the juke box music dies.

A simple linear story line film by the great Hal Ashby with non linear emotional monkey wrenches inserted that results in exquisite character development and deconstruction plus a covert meta narrative commentary about race relations, circa 1970's, during the slice of post vietnam America.

One of my favorite films in recent years and perhaps the only near three hour opus (at least of PTA) that I have had no problem re-watching on the blu-ray format. Compared to the cinematic landscape in contemporary times, arguably due to the lack of attention spans, the barrage of CGI use, and what not, TWBB, at least for this viewer, has been one of the best films in the last five years. A cinematic masterpiece.

Saw this film a long time ago, it's prologue is a Jewish folklore yarn about an "undead" man, which seems to me to be analogous to the frame of the main character, Larry Gopnik, a college professor and family man who's life become an even tighter ball of yarn of domestic dissolutions. It feels like the Coen Bros. most personal film about Jewish Americans living in the repressive 1960's conservative American landscape

Naturally this movie is not on par with the masterful allegorical Fellini's "8 1/2". For this genre, the musical numbers seemed at times a little lacking with flash and glitter pizzaz that made Marshall's "Chicago" an audience and critical darling.

The r-rated adult version of the Pixar film "Up"

I hated the pro-life subtext message of Juno as much as I was insulted how critics and some audience's warm embracement of the plot of a smartass sixteen year old white teenager getting pregnant, if it was a girl of color, the film would have become a message film of the subaltern. Any way, this film was a better pill to digest, an adult film. Reitman's movie successfully touches upon the current American pulse.

Watching this film made me think that the filmmakers captured a safe capsule for us of the plight of the homeless who live the life recreated on the screen without the fictional conditions from the aftermath of an apocalypse.

By far the most "religious" film made in recent times, religious in the sense without Biblical moral piety, but entrenched in pure artistic stoicism. The opening shot is transcendent, and reminiscent of Antonioni. The cinematic naturalism of the cinematography is on par with with the performances by the non-pro actors. I consider Carlos Reygadas the cinematic near equivalent of the great Chilean writer Roberto Bolano