Eureka (TV Series 2006– 12 Years a Slave Movie Review (2013 After "Django Unchained" and Lee Daniels' "The Butler," both informed by the shameful legacy of slavery and institutionalized injustice in America, you might think you have satisfied your quota of viewing incidents of racial hatred, sexual abuse and ugly brutality in the past year. You would be wrong. While both of those box-office and critical successes offered compensation for their heavy subject matter with outbreaks of humor and a hip attitude, "12 Years a Slave" is a somber, meditative, almost poetic film that delivers the horrors of bondage stripped down and head-on. For once, history is presented as personal and immediate, not a saga relying on scholarly works and court records à la "Amistad." While "Django" and "The Butler" were slaps in the face of inequality, this is a punch to the gut. With three features under his belt, McQueen has established his auteurship as a unflinching tackler of difficult subjects with a humanistic edge: discomfort cinema, if you will.
How ‘Dune’ almost prevented ‘Star Wars’ from ever being Cannes, France – Remember how bad the movie “Dune” was? Well, it didn’t have to be that way. The film, directed by David Lynch in 1984, was so terrible, David Lynch eventually took his name off of it. But Lynch wouldn’t have had a chance to direct “Dune” if its original director had been able to get it made back in the mid-1970s. That man’s name is Alejandro Jodorowsky, and his epic failure to get “Dune” to the big screen is the subject a documentary that has become a hit at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. “Jodorowsky’s Dune” tells the tale of the director’s mad plan to recruit a cast including David Carradine, Salvador Dali, Orson Welles, and Mick Jagger to his movie adaptation of the wildly popular sci-fi book. Oh yeah, and Pink Floyd was doing the soundtrack. “What we try to get across in the film is his whole notion of ambition,” the documentary’s director, Frank Pavek, told FOX411. And try he did. And then Jodorowsky shopped it to the studios. Nothing in between.
i wish there were more serials like this one. by tt12 Mar 24