Comments on: Traveling Boy Selects Top Films From 2023

By: Happy Hell – Traveling Boy

Happy Hell – Traveling Boy — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:18:28 +0000

[…] in case you’re interested, TravelingBoy.com has their own list of award-winning movies. I respect this list more than politicized […]

By: Ed

Ed — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:57:21 +0000

In reply to Dan.

Thanks, Dan… i appreciate your reaching out to T–Boy. I know many are split on Kelly Reichardt; some consider her to be a towering figure of independent cinema, others are indifferent, wondering why she’s such a big deal. She does get a lot respect from auteurists for her overall body of work due to her consistant minimalist visual style. More literary minded viewers admire her devotion to working-class characters in small, rural communities. Of course it’s not easy being a female director working outside of male dominated mainstrean Hollywood. I was not a fan with Meek’s Cutoff, but have always been impressed with Certain Women, and, though slightly less, with Showing Up. What’s important to me is that she makes personal films which illustrates her passion for cinema. It doesn’t hurt that Michelle Williams has appeared in many of her films. Ed

By: Linda Dee

Linda Dee — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 00:25:20 +0000

Glad to see Tboy had The Zone of Interest as best film
of 2023. It was very interesting and thought provoking. The banalties of evils and how you can see yourself just carrying out orders. How atrocities are conducted as a normal activity, and passing this down to your children. Horrendous.

How we can easily ignore what is happening just over a wall. Very relevant even in present day events.

My only problem I have with this movie is that you must have knowledge of the historical events. There are a lot of subtle and long drawn out moments that can be quite confusing even for my dumb brain to know what is actually happening. Example, the infrared parts, I was very confused what was happening, for a good while.

Only after reading a bit more after can I appreciate the movie even more.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:04:49 +0000

Celina… thanks your thoughtful comment. When you said ‘Rudolph,’ no doubt you’re referring to Rudolph Höss in The Zone of Interest. I’m amazed, but pleased by all the social media chatter devoted to it. For me, it’s an important film that demands revisiting.

Yes, translations can be a problem… in Remarque’s, In The West, Nothing New (or No News in the West) to All Quiet on the Western Front; Angst to Topsy-turvy, etc, in the same above text.

I’ve read three different translations of Crime and Punishment, and each versions felt like a new story.

By: Celina

Celina — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:13:13 +0000

translations for any foreign movie I feel are questionable

sometimes I’ll vaguely understand what is being said by someone with what little I know of the language and the subtitles will say something I guess functionally similar and at best slightly more clarifying, I understand literal translations aren’t always ideal and can be misleading but other times rudolph saying “jah” and then the translation being like “I will”, it’s like just translate it as “yes”??? what is being lost there???

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 07:22:05 +0000

Ok list… Zone of Interest, Killer Moon, Poor Things good. Don’t get why folks like Showing Up. What’s the big deal about it?

By: Ed Boitano

Ed Boitano — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 23:46:00 +0000

In reply to Roarke. You're right; I watched it last night... and was blown away.

By: Roarke

Roarke — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 23:45:12 +0000

In reply to Ed Boitano. Return to Seoul was one of the best films of the year.

By: Ed Boitano

Ed Boitano — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 21:20:10 +0000

Hey, Marvin… Thanks for the kind words. I generally don’t quote Howard Cosell, but “I call them as I see them.”

By: Marvin

Marvin — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 16:48:37 +0000

Your movie review is better than the Oscars which are politically motivated. Yours is based on artistic merits. You made me aware of films I didn’t even know existed. Great stuff!