words, art and movies
IMG-0654.jpg

Film Writing

Film writing by Sean Michael Erickson

Posts tagged Berlinale 2018
Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (or, the 68th Berlin International Film Festival Pt. 2)

Perhaps it's a good sign as to just how much I liked his latest, the recovery tale called Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, but I'm now eager to catch up with Restless and Land of Trees (as with Finding Forrester, I still have a hard time finding interest to see Promised Land).

Read More
Isle of Dogs (or, the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, Pt. 1)

Anderson has created his own Roald Dahl-type fable this time. Or, to be more precise, his own The Little Prince. While the Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's classic is about a pilot who crash lands in the desert and meets a little boy from another planet, Isle of Dogs is about a boy who crash lands on an island and meets five dogs who agree to help him find his beloved Spots. In case the hat tip wasn't implicit, the dogs call the mysterious fallen boy, the "Little Pilot."

Read More