Lynn Belvedere

INTERSTELLAR

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Director Christopher Nolan (THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, INCEPTION) again creatively builds upon his experimental cinematography with his use of anamorphic 35mm and 15perf/70 IMAX cameras attached to aeroplanes, to provide the audience with stunningly visuals and has successfully re-imagined the science fiction blockbuster genre on a grand scale.

If you are looking for a comparison to go by, INTERSTELLAR  is a deep space thriller and odyssey that is reminiscent of selective parts of the premise in the source material for several science fiction films, including THE PLANET OF THE APES, 2001 and GRAVITY.

The film is set in the not-too-distant future. INTERSTELLAR shows a global crisis where planet earth’s crops are being ravaged and destroyed by an uncontrollable blight. A space journey is undertaken to save humanity from its destructive excesses, and to find a new planet like earth to re-locate all seven billion human inhabitants of Earth, or to start again on a new earth utilising the thousands of fertilised human eggs carried on-board the spacecraft.

 

Matthew McConaughey plays the former NASA pilot who propels his space craft through a wormhole located near Saturn, that exits near a Black Hole located in another galaxy, with a team of explorers to travel to twelve possible earth-like planets in those galaxies, without the previous limitations of human space travel.

In many ways this thrilling movie features huge, coruscating kaleidoscopes of expansive vistas, that fill one with hope for the future of humanity. Nevertheless, I did  have some reservations. Nolan’s epic film needs to be severely re-edited,  as it is a minimum of fifty minutes too long, and is in dire need of having various long sequences, including the unnecessary lengthy melodrama about the absent father (Matthew McConaughey), shortened and tightened or removed.

I also had an issue with the same identical presentation problems, experienced at three different cinemas, with some of the film’s spoken sound quality being muffled and distorted by ambient sound. It was impossibly difficult to hear two essential dialogue sequences from both Matthew McConaughey and Michael Caine, and perhaps also not helped by the actors mumbling those very important words.

Highly Recommended.   INTERSTELLAR stars Oscar winning actors: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club, Wolf of Wall Street) and Anne Hathaway (Les Miserables, The Devil Wears Prada), together with the excellent supporting cast including Ellen Burstyn (Requiem for a Dream, The Exorcist), Jessica Chastain (The Help, Mama), Topher Grace (Spiderman 3), Michael Caine (The Dark Knight, The Italian Job), John Lithgow, Casey Affleck, Matt Damon.

OFLC Classification: rated M (Science fiction themes and violence)

Official Website: http://www.warnerbros.com/interstellar/



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Published by Lynn Belvedere

Once we were old enough, my parents took the whole family to the Sydney CBD cinemas every week. Thus began a lifetime interest, in going to the cinema every week, and became a passionate cinephile by watching all those very heavily edited ''Australian Film Censorship Board'' true cinéaste versions of brand new release ''Cinematograph Films''. Greater Union always gave my father (who worked in Cinema Distribution Exhibition) guest double movie passes, to every first-night ''red carpet Opening Night'' at The State Theatre Cinema at 49 Market Street. Up until his death, my dad always received ''two house seats'' for every Opening Night performance events at the Theatre Royal SYDNEY and at Her Majesty's Theatre SYDNEY. As a child, when mum choose not to go, I often went with him, to those live performance events. As a young child, I remember being taken for each new show, at both The New Theatre at 60 Sussex Street, and the Phillip Street Theatre when located at 150 Elizabeth Street, and for classical music concerts at Sydney Town Hall. = = = ★★★★★ = = = Being happy is a choice, and I have always viewed my life, as material ready be made into a series of amazing tentpole movies. My New Years Resolution is kept every year: ''Get to see/review five new live theatre shows each week, and get to see/review six new cinema movies each week'', plus is one of the Australian Cinema Pioneers, and apparently have seen far too much already, but always wanting to experience more and more each year. I am also able to do almost everything that I enjoy doing. Yes, I do have a great daytime job in I.T. as ''Software Design Project Manager'', PLUS each evening until quite late - - - Australian Cinematograph Films historical censorship consultant - product-placement consultant - mystery-shopper consultant - playwright, writer, author, director, producer, photographer, cinematographer, color-grader, subtitles proofreader - arts/ drama/ music/ film critic and judge, journalist, member FIPRESCI & FCCA & AFCA, member AACTA accredited film reviewer-critic-writer, accredited IMDB.COM critic-reviewer-author, projectionist, plus an innovative iconoclast - - - ★★★★★ LYNN BELVEDERE ★★★★★ - - - [usr 5] - - -