A Forgotten Zombie Movie Is Finding Lots Of Love On Netflix
Shaun of the Dead was a riotous comedy,
Warm Bodies a surprisingly moving rom-com and Danny Boyle’s
28 Days Later a relentlessly intense survival thriller, while Zack Snyder’s upcoming Netflix exclusive
Army of the Dead is a high octane action blockbuster.
One of the more lo-fi efforts in recent history to feature shuffling hordes of the undead was
The Dead Don’t Die, which wasn’t much of a surprise given that it was written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. The filmmaker is regarded as a pivotal figure in the rise of American independent cinema over the last few decades thanks to his breakout 1984 feature
Danny L Harle and his alter ego DJ Danny. Photograph: Vasso Vu
The easiest way to sell a new cultural product is through familiarity, whether it’s a gender-flipped version of Ghostbusters or an upsampled Star Wars: all the swashbuckling elements enhanced with new effects and younger, smoother-skinned leads. Remake, remix, reboot – we are living in an era where culture turns like a mirrorball in a hall of mirrors, reflecting infinitesimally.
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Dance music has been subject to this churn for decades, but it’s never been as mercilessly fast or as slickly, algorithmically refined as it is today. The newest example is Harlecore, the debut album from British producer Danny L Harle, who has worked with Nile Rodgers, Charli XCX, Rina Sawayama, Carly Rae Jepsen and more. His record is a love letter to an often maligned subset of genres, reintroducing them for
Ghostbusters, which became one of the highest-grossing films of the decade.
A run of unsuccessful films led Murray into a self-imposed hiatus until he directed and starred in
Quick Change (1990). After playing a burned-out weatherman in the existential comedy
Groundhog Day (1993), Murray began tackling more thoughtful and challenging parts, including supporting roles in Tim Burton’s
Ed Wood (1994) and Wes Anderson’s
Rushmore (1998).
In addition to earning an Academy Award nomination, Murray won a Golden Globe Award and a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) Award for his role as a washed-up American actor visiting Japan in the acclaimed film
How do I select the movie I pick each week? It’s not particularly scientific, I look through what I can easily find – which is very easy in the silent era, since everything is old enough to be in the public domain at this point, provided that it wasn’t lost completely, like The Miracle Man, which had the biggest box office of 1919 but no longer exists – and pick something that seems interesting in some way. In the case of Broken Blossoms, I picked it entirely because of the man who made it, D. W. Griffith. It’s impossible to talk about the silent era without talking about Griffith, who was one of the major directors of the time. His films contributed to the way movies looked, and how movies still look - his use of close-ups is still a basic part of film grammar today, but was revolutionary at the time. But the problem with Griffith is that while he was technically brilliant, he also made Birth of a Nation, which was incredibly racist. Not just racist in a modern con
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Providing an intensely darker, more brooding take on the famous DC Comics character than we ve seen in previous live-action features, Todd Phillips heavily Martin Scorsese-influenced
Joker, a character study exploring the reworked origin story of the titular character, divided critics but became an unlikely worldwide hit. The R-rated dramatic film grossed over a billion dollars worldwide and it received 11 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director, with Joaquin Phoenix winning Best Actor for his unhinged portrayal of The Clown Prince of Crime. However you feel about the movie itself, it s hard to deny the visceral power of the lead actor s committed performance.