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Originally Posted by Lucien21

Good Night, and Good Luck


Part documentary Part drama.

George Clooneys' second feature film and his second film that delves into the life of an american TV star.

I loved the way they used archive footage of McCarthy instead of using actors.

The Black and White style, sets and the abundance of smoking transports you back to 50's at the height of the McCarthy witch hunt trials.

Great performances from all the cast although I thought that apart from David Stathairn and Clooney the rest of the characters were kinda glossed over. Little time for Characterisation.

Sparse use of music except for some Jazz music seems to fit the movie.

Good Film.

If you don't like this film then your a communist *allegedly*

Hmmm I'm pretty close to a communist (socialist) but I did like the film Too bad Clooney had to distort the facts just a little to add those jazzy scenes, though that's a triviality.

Originally Posted by Spiwak

I loved Match Point, first of all. It's so different from Allen's other work, but yet it probably ranks up there in his repertoir. I was so thoroughly engrossed for two hours, and the last thirty minutes are genuinely tense. Not to mention that, but the whole feeling that events were out of the characters' hands, that luck or fate or whatever, was always looming right outside the frame.

As for New World, whatever gave you the idea that it'd be Hollywoodized is totally off. This is the work of one Terrence Malick, who also directed Thin Red Line. You might remember Thin Red Line, how the director used natural imagery to tell the story, and created a deeply philosophical look at war beyond "war sucks because people die" as is the case of Saving Private Ryan or Platoon. Well the New World is a continuation of his vision, and beyond good filmmaking qualities (the costumes, the period-stuff) he again shows an intimate portrait of the land and how the arrival of Europeans changed everything for the land. There is little dialogue (much of it in contemplative voice-over) and the main characters are pictured mostly through theire expressions and body language. Like Thin Red Line before it, it's very nearly cinematic poetry. Malick is an artist, and this is the pinnacle of his vision.

So yea I recommend both pretty highly. Though I will say New World feels long, as it is deliberately paced and atmospheric, and probably isn't a movie for everyone. If you're more into simply enjoying yourself at the theater I'd say Match Point. If you like to think and be transported I'd say New World.

I heard the producers of New World switched director mid-production, but I guess I was confused with something else entirely Great, I loved The Thin Red Line (hell of a lot more than Saving Private Ryan) so I'll probably love this. Every review of Match Point makes me want to see it more I hope Allen 'got his groove back' and continues to make films on a regular basis, even though some of them might turn out to be crap, but when he does it right, he does it right