Showing posts with label Dito Montiel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dito Montiel. Show all posts

Sunday, May 19, 2013

The Son of No One (Dito Montiel, 2011)

1986, Queensboro Projects

Queensbridge looks eerily beautiful from above. Strange-looking structures surrounded by trees, scattered around with no apparent criteria, as if they had sprouted from the earth, it almost looks like something from another world. 

Dito Montiel's cinema is essentially impressionistic. Recollections of moods, places, events, people. Always too richly detailed to have been entirely made up. In The Son of No One, when his camera repeatedly hovers over the neighborhood, it's as if these buildings are hiding a million different stories, and he knows every single one of them.


Queensboro Projects in The Son of No One

Queensbridge aerial view

Queensbridge night time

Saturday, October 6, 2012

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (Dito Montiel, 2006)

Shia LaBeouf in A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

Shia LaBeouf as Dito Montiel


Dito Montiel does his best Spike Lee impression and comes out on top. His passion for the medium is evident, and the film is packed with interesting (albeit simple) cinematic ideas.

Great acting all around, including Channing Tatum, and (especially, surprisingly) Shia LaBeouf.