Notes from the sketch book — Movie review

This art collection is an examination of the Western genre, specifically focusing on Clint Eastwood's transition from television actor to cinematic icon. The series intends to analyze Eastwood's evolution, tracing his rise to prominence through Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy," films that redefined the Western's visual and narrative language. The intention is to observe, assess, and produce artistic interpretations inspired by these films, ultimately culminating in a study of Eastwood's role in the deconstruction of the Western archetype. However, the series initial point of departure is not Leone's work, but Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo." This choice underscores the acknowledgement that cinematic influence...

Bong Joon-ho, ever the master of the sleight-of-hand genre, takes on deep-space survival in Mickey 17, a film that wants to be a high-concept meditation on identity, a satire of corporate-megachurch futurism, and a doomed romance all at once. It's the kind of ambition you almost want to applaud, until the pieces start bumping into each other like lost satellites. Robert Pattinson plays Mickey, so down on his luck he's signed up to be a human guinea pig – or rather, a human printer cartridge . Die, get reprinted, repeat. It's a premise ripe with the kind of dark irony...