Movie reviews
Koyaanisquatsi (1982)
I’ve said it before. Who needs special effects when you’ve got the real world? Nothing is more spectacular than the natural world we’re born into,
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udVcEcGYw-Q Also worth checking out is Lang’s Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922). There’s a high quality copy on YouTube, but with German intertitle cards: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuJRs9xvkPg
Andrei Rublev (1966)
“…if we accept objective existence of the reflection— reflecting as it is given, we are obliged to conceive a mode of being different from that
The Misfits (1961)
Guido: You care—whatever happens to anybody happens to you. You’re really hooked into the whole thing. It’s a blessing. Rosalind: People say I’m just nervous….
Mephisto (1981)
Hey, it’s an actor’s life. Art may be immortal, but the bills still have to be paid. One minute you’re playing Hamlet, the next you’re
Leaving Normal (1992)
I didn’t understand Thelma & Louise. Or rather, I didn’t understand why Thelma & Louise had the impact it did. It’s not that I don’t
Come See the Paradise (1990)
Alan Parker, I know you’re not out there reading this, but I apologize anyway. When I decided to check out Come See the Paradise—your recent
An Angel at My Table (1990)
“Do you know the secret of my success with tigers?” – Janet Frame If you weren’t sure that there really was such a thing
The Devil’s Eye (1960)
“A woman’s chastity is a sty in the Devil’s eye.” —Irish proverb “Lack of principle is my principle, vice my virtue, debauchery my asceticism, godlessness
Stormy Weather (1943), Blood Wedding (1981) & Carmen (1983)
This review is set up the way movies sometimes used to be: a short, followed by a double feature presentation. You remember shorts, don’t you?
The Last Wave (1977)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfJ1c-6FFX4 Peter Weir wrote and directed The Last Wave in the year -9 B.D. That’s “Before Dundee.” Before Paul Hogan revamped Tarzan and had
Homicide (1991)
Let’s begin by confusing the issue. This is a movie review, so I’ll talk about books for a while. Trust me. You’ve probably seen copies