Posts Tagged ‘F. Scott Fitzgerald’

The Great Gatsby is a Mad Circus of Visual Opulence That Overshadows the Narrative, But DiCaprio’s Portrayal of the Man is Outstanding

Posted: 15th May 2013 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film Review
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Review by Luke Whitmire The Great Gatsby truly is a beautiful, rich spectacle that has gleaming and saturated colors with kinetic emotion. Buz Lurhmann’s visual style and palate has always been hypnotic, cinematic insanity, often beset with strong characters. Restraint isn’t his thing. In previous films like Romeo & Juliet, Moulin Rouge! and Australia, he used the […]

Ultra Rare Sorcerer Screening, Followed by Director William Friedkin Q&A!

Posted: 10th May 2013 by Dion in Film, News, Podwits Exclusive
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I was lucky enough to attend a very small screening of William Friedkin‘s rarely-shown 1977 cult classic Sorcerer, a remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot‘s French classic Wages of Fear, which has been called the most suspenseful film of all time. What made this screening such a treat was not only seeing a 35mm print of Sorcerer, but the rare Q&A by the […]