Monday, November 26, 2007

Ivan's Childhood

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I've been working my way through classic foreign films in the past month or so. I've now treaded a decent amount of ground with Ingm...
Saturday, November 24, 2007

Lady From Shanghai

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"Maybe I'll live so long that I'll forget her. Maybe I'll die trying." So says Orson Welles' Michael O'Hara at...
Friday, November 23, 2007

The Mist

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The Mist gets going pretty quick. An initial plot device gets the main characters to the principal location and a impenetrable mist covers ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

The Station Agent

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It doesn't take long in The Station Agent for us to be familiar with Finbar (Peter Dinklage) and his life. He's a dwarf who has a p...

Hitman

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I've often compared my addiction to seeing movies in the theater to a crack addiction. I can actually start to shake if I don't see ...
Tuesday, November 20, 2007

The Silence

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I saw my first Ingmar Bergman film a little more than a month ago. I then proceeded to watch a lot more. I stuck to the drama rather than th...
Sunday, November 18, 2007

Black Sheep

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Camp horror films remind me of the 80s. You know the type, poorly plotted, mediocrely acted films about monsters running amuk with a hero ha...

Miller's Crossing

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Miller's Crossing is a very artificial movie. The scenes are stagey, the dialog comes off as clearly dialog. It may seem like I'm c...
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Annie Hall

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Alvy' (Woody Allen) and Annie' (Diane Keaton) first encounter in Annie Hall pretty much sums up for me why it is such a great movie...
Thursday, November 15, 2007

Cabin Boy

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Nathanial: Tell me about the sea. What does it mean to you? Captain Graybar: Basically, money. I come from six generations of seamen all wit...
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Monday, November 12, 2007

Hour of the Wolf

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Hour of the Wolf is like a cluster bomb of confusing scenes, weird non sequiturs and general mayhem. And that is exactly the point. The fil...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

Amelie

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Jay Sherman (voiced by Jon Lovitz) was the star of a short lived but in my opinion great prime time cartoon "The Critic." In an ea...

American Gangster

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In 1968 when his boss died, Frank Lucas (Denzel Washington) took up his organization and began selling drugs making millions of dollars. He ...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007

Darjeeling Limited

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My friend recently summed up Mr. Wes Anderson in the following way: "Man #1: I'm quirky. Man #2: Yes, but I'm quirky and droll....
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Bicycle Thief

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Vittorio De Sica's "The Bicycle Thief" is my first foray into Italian neo-realism but has the qualities I've always been p...

Virgin Spring

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If you check my blog on a regular basis, say four or five times a day, I first question why the hell you would waste that much time but seco...
Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Amores Perros

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Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is one heck of a director. The man manages to pull together three stories coherently, manage a cadre of talented...

Stray Dog

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I'm told that Akira Kurosawa owes more to Dosteivsky than to Japenese film making. This is ever so clear in a film like "Stray Dog....
Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Saw IV

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I can't even begin to give an explanation as to why I willingly watched Saw IV , but I can't give a rational explanation as to why I...
Sunday, October 28, 2007

Through A Glass Darkly/Winter Light

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I've heard that Ingmar Bergman directed comedies as well as drama but I can't imagine they are as funny and frivolous as his dramas ...
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