David Straitham Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/david-straitham/ Sat, 14 Nov 2020 19:59:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://cdn.theplaylist.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/14214807/cropped-cropped-media-47-1-32x32.png David Straitham Archives - The Playlist https://theplaylist.net/tag/david-straitham/ 32 32 Review: ‘Howl’ Is A Completely Perfunctory Look At An Important Work Of Art https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-howl-is-completely-perfunctory-20100922/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-howl-is-completely-perfunctory-20100922/#comments Wed, 22 Sep 2010 19:30:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=940 How to react when a movie is not intended to be “just” a movie? The new film “Howl” isn’t intended to be a direct narrative as much as an introductory course. You’ll get more from watching this in an intro to poetry class than at the cineplex; better to have a pen and pad than a bucket of popcorn. “Howl” is so named for the seminal poem by Beat Generation avatar Allen Ginsberg: who isn’t played by multi-hyphenate renaissance man James Franco as much as mimicked and impersonated.

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]]> https://staging2.theplaylist.net/review-howl-is-completely-perfunctory-20100922/feed/ 1 ‘Cold Souls’: All Pedestrian Concept & No Pulse https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cold-souls-all-pedestrian-concept-no-20090804/ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/cold-souls-all-pedestrian-concept-no-20090804/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 15:35:00 +0000 http://theplaylist.wpengine.com/?p=6682 Film festival hype… We swear the altitudes in Utah cut off circulation to the brain. You don’t want to do a review based on what others have said, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t say we’re fairly surprised to see writers we respect giving this film an easy pass.

And yes, even though Sundance ’09 favorite “Cold Souls” is not generally like a Charlie Kaufman film — as many have compared it to for basic explanatory purposes — there are similar existential themes that are undeniable (yet only one of these two writers really knows the architecture of drama–We’ll give you two guesses which one).

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