{"id":2237,"date":"2011-12-31T09:18:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T16:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2011-12-31T10:06:30","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T17:06:30","slug":"2011-in-review-innovation-led-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=2237","title":{"rendered":"2011 in Review &#8211; Innovation led the way!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>T<\/strong>he innovation went retro as \u201cThe Artist,\u201d a silent film, topped many lists, including my own.  More on that film later\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?attachment_id=2238\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2238\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Drive-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"12-31-11 Drive\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Drive-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Drive-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Drive-400x593.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Drive-456x675.jpg 456w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Drive.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><strong>T<\/strong>he retro approach had Director Nicolas Winding Refn adopting a 1980s motif with his violent crime film \u201cDrive,\u201d a movie that also resurrected the career of Albert Brooks in the process.  \u201cDrive,\u201d which contained the best Ryan Gosling performance of the year, started far better than it ended. The film may have enchanted fanboys and wannabe filmmakers, but I found the narrative a little too one note and ultimately as vacant as the stares from Gosling in the lead.  Expect more pugilistic violence and male posturing as Winding Refn and Gosling team up again in 2012 for the Bangkok set boxing film \u201cOnly God Forgives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?attachment_id=2239\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2239\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Bellflower-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"12-31-11 Bellflower\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Bellflower-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Bellflower-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Bellflower-400x583.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Bellflower-463x675.jpg 463w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Bellflower.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a>Form trumped substance more than once in 2011, especially with Evan Glodell\u2019s debut \u201cBellflower.\u201d  The homemade feature literally shot by a camera built by the director has as its highlight a slow-motion scene of a car, called \u201cMedusa,\u201d racing recklessly down a residential street.  The car like most everything in the film was created by the production team specifically for the movie.  Sure, every production has sets and props, but few are as detailed and intricate and, well, as drivable as the ones from \u201cBellflower.\u201d  The story told in the film is a bit of metaphorical non-sense&#8211;a rumination on relationships that was given much more credit than it deserved because of the clever and arguably cutting edge camera work.  Think of it as a much less entertaining take on the \u201cFight Club\u201d world.<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=2233\"><strong>Next: Raunchy comedies for girls&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was often form over substance in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}