Tag Archives: Joaquin Phoenix

The Master (2012)

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Ross Birks

“You can’t take this life straight can you?” This time around (my fifth? sixth?) I really latched onto the movie as a rumination on performance and specifically its contrasting of acting styles. Phoenix represents the angry, visceral, tormented style birthed in … Continue reading →

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To Die For (1995)

Posted on November 1, 2017 by Ross Birks

Gus Van Sant never really gets the credit he deserves as a stylist. As someone who got into his work primarily through his austere “Bela Tarr Period” I’m always struck by how formally inventive and playful a lot of his … Continue reading →

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U Turn (1997)

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Ross Birks

It’s a good time to be an Oliver Stone fan. Or at the very least it’s a good time to be thinking about Oliver Stone. His latest film Snowden has just hit cinemas but more interestingly, Matt Zoller Seitz recently published The Oliver Stone Experience; … Continue reading →

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Thinking Comes Later: Inherent Vice (2014)

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Ross Birks

Paul Thomas Anderson is like a god to me. I know I’m not at the only one to feel that way. Anderson is to us what I imagine Scorsese was to cinephiles of the 70s and 80s. He’s one of … Continue reading →

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