It’s no mystery why filmmakers are drawn to stories about heists and con artists. The grifters that populate these stories employ a similar artistry to directors and screenwriters and everyone else who collaborates on cinematic offerings, building fictions compelling enough … Continue reading Top Ten Movies of 2009 — Number Three
She barely says a word. As Bang Bang in Rian Johnson’s second feature, The Brothers Bloom, Rinko Kikuchi does not have the benefit of hefty monologues that plumb her character’s soul, nor does she get the sort of clever, stylized … Continue reading Class of 2009 Supporting Actress Blogathon: Rinko Kikuchi in The Brothers Bloom
#35 — Brick (Rian Johnson, 2006) Sometimes movies use dialogue to capture how we do talk, wallowing in the stammers, the pauses, the redundancies. False starts and restless thinking out loud intermingle, obscuring the exposition and banter while also lending … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Thirty-Five
#43 — The Brothers Bloom (Rian Johnson, 2009) Rian Johnson’s second feature film virtually reverberates with a love of storytelling. The main plot is driven by an elaborate con that unfolds across several nations, so there is naturally an abundance … Continue reading Top Fifty Films of the 00s — Number Forty-Three
When making a movie about major cons, it helps to have Ricky Jay‘s involvement, which bestows upon the project a tacit endorsement. And so The Brothers Bloom begins with Jay’s voice, narrating the headlong tale of the titular characters’ boyhood … Continue reading We question everything we see, when someone’s talking there’s nothing to believe
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