Tag: David Fincher

  • Cinema Immortal: Tarsem Singh’s The Fall

    Cinema Immortal: Tarsem Singh’s The Fall

    Tarsem Singh’s The Cell (2000) was one of the best-looking bad movies I’ve ever seen. It certainly wasn’t helped by the routine serial killer plot possibly meant to capitalize on the success of David Fincher’s Se7en (from the same studio, New Line Cinema). But it was tragically obvious that Tarsem (as he is simply known)…

  • Brad Pitt Lives Life in Reverse in David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    Brad Pitt Lives Life in Reverse in David Fincher’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    This blogger is slowly cooling on former favorite David Fincher. His underrated first feature Alien3 is highly compromised, but easily the next most thematically interesting entry in the Alien franchise (after, of course, Ridley Scott’s rich original). Se7en is one of the most gut-wrenchingly disturbing movies ever made, notable for having virtually no violence appear…