Denis & Margie Haack continue to write at Critique-Letters
Out of decay: the glory of morels
This past Sunday (in 2013) Margie and I wandered through five acres of woods with our good friend, Joe Schwen, organic farmer extraordinaire. The…
Author: Denis Haack
Film comment: Lincoln (2012), Waste Land (2010), Traitor (2008)
In terms of genre these three films are very different: Lincolnis a historical drama, Waste Land is a documentary, and Traitor is a spy…
Film Comment: Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Pt. 2
We need to talk Like Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow’s 2008 Oscar winning film, Zero Dark Thirty is a compelling war film, appropriately gritty and…
Film Comment: Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Pt. 1
We need to talk I am not a pacifist. I thought I was one for a few years, but my oldest daughter who was…
Movie comment: Django Unchained (2012)
I went to see this movie without reading any reviews or seeing much about it in the media except that some people (including director…
Film comment: Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)
“I see that I am a little piece of a big, big universe, and that makes it right,” Hushpuppy says matter-of-factly in Beasts of…
Film Comment: Melancholia (2011)
When despair is realism Lars von Trier, the Danish filmmaker, has recently been in the news for controversial comments surrounding his film Melancholia that…
Movie comment: No Man’s Land (2001)
The year is 1993 and war has come to Bosnia. Two soldiers, a Croat and a Serb, find themselves caught in a trench between…
Movie Comment: The Way Back (2010)
The Cold War is a part of history now, and I can amuse my grandchildren with stories of the air raid drills that occasionally…
Movie Comment: Another Year (2010)
This is an unassuming film, a quiet slice of life that follows real people over the course of a year and becomes a touchstone…