Series: Denis Villeneuve

Denis Villeneuve has gradually emerged as one of the most exciting big-budget directors of the past fifteen years.

As I review Dune: Part Two, which I quite like, I must confront a question

Denis Villeneuve’s Dune is, above all else, an adaptation.

There are about a dozen reasons that Blade Runner 2049 should not work.

I’ve always loved the English language idiom of referring to the vast expanse of space as “the heavens.”

I’ve seen Denis Villeneuve compared to Christopher Nolan on multiple occasions, and I think there’s some truth to the comparison.

I really wish that I loved Enemy more than I did.

It’s strange: With Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve has a bigger budget, a more talented cast and crew, a script that he did not write himself, a new language to film in, an entirely new genre

Denis Villeneuve spends Incendies creating a tension between docudrama and melodrama

A few nights ago, I drafted (then deleted) a review of Polytechnique that concluded my thoughts with: “Oh yeah, and I am the survivor of a school shooting with a lot of similarities to this one, and I’m not really sure if that changed how I felt about it.”