Tag Archives: David Strathairn

A Decade of FITI reviews: Lincoln (2012)

January 31, 2022 flawintheiris

Hello faithful reader! Carsten here. Having written thousands of reviews over the (actually more than) 10 years of this blog, I figured it might be fun to go into the vault and bring dusty, perhaps forgotten reviews back into the light. Expect these to show up around once a week for the next little while.… Read More

Nightmare Alley review — del Toro’s noir is grim, gorgeous, and glacial

December 21, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Guillermo del Toro | Written by del Toro and Kim Morgan, based on a novel by William Lindsay Gresham | 150 min | Crave In October 2017 I was in Toronto for two reasons: One to attend the 50th birthday party of a good friend, the other to see Guillermo del Toro's remarkable… Read More

20 Best Movies on Amazon Prime (From the 20th Century)

May 24, 2021 flawintheiris

I started with Netflix, notorious for having a shallow catalogue of older movies, then went on to Disney's new service, Star. Now I'm having a look at Prime, which actually boasts a bigger variety of films 21 years or older. Here's some of the best available now: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972) This is Werner… Read More

Nomadland review — Beautiful, elemental, and essential

April 9, 2021 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Chloé Zhao, based on the book by Jessica Bruder | 107 min | Disney Plus and Crave Plus A version of this review first appeared on Flaw In The Iris in September 2020, when it screened as part of the Toronto International Film Festival. There's no ignoring the accolades heaped upon… Read More

#TIFF2020 Review — Nomadland

September 13, 2020 flawintheiris

Written and Directed by Chloé Zhao, based on the book by Jessica Bruder | 108 min The book this film is based on — Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century — is non-fiction. Its writer, Jessica Bruder, also wrote this article for Harpers, which informs the screenplay. Zhao uses non-actors in the picture including… Read More

Fast Color review — Fantasy tells fresh story

July 2, 2020 flawintheiris

Directed by Julia Hart | Written by Hart and Jordan Horowitz | 100 min | Crave It hasn't rained for years. As post- or ongoing-apocalyptic crises go, it's plenty grim, plenty dusty. Ruth (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) is on the run. She's trying to get home, to a small town out in the desert. Her mission is… Read More

Reviews from The Vault: Vol. 6 — Quirky Gems

August 7, 2019 flawintheiris

From 2005 to 2009 I was a programmer on CKDU 88.1 FM in Halifax, every Sunday morning hosting The Love & Hate Movie Show. I talked about what I was seeing and revisited some of my favourite films of old, pretty much what I do now here on FITI. I still have a lot of… Read More

Lincoln review

November 25, 2012 flawintheiris

Directed by Steven SpielbergWritten by Tony Kushner, adapting Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns GoodwinI walked into Spielberg's newest historical epic expecting a handsome, serious and somewhat sentimental movie (thanks to the director's undeniable skill and irrepressible mushiness), beautiful to see (thanks to cinematographer Janusz Kaminski) with an acting clinic… Read More

Revisiting the Bourne Trilogy

July 30, 2012 flawintheiris

I decided to rewatch the immensely popular and influential Universal Pictures action franchise this weekend in advance of its relaunch August 10 with The Bourne Legacy. I say "relaunch" because it's not just another sequel — the director of the second and third film, Paul Greengrass, chose not to return, as did the lead, Matt… Read More