Delightfully unpredictable-- Emir Kusturica’s English language debut is a blend of surrealism narrative stream-of-consciousness and (seemingly) improvisation Johnny Depp stars- and he’s good here, as are Faye Dunaway, Lili Taylor and Vincent Gallo (Jerry Lewis
An impressive international star-studded cast consisting of Charles Bronson (US- the clear star of the film), Mifune (Japan), Delon (France) and Ursula Andress from Dr. No (Switzerland) and directed by early Connery Bond films director
A buried treasure of a film- Robert Wise’s The Andromeda Strain is a not-so-distant cousin from Welles, Wyler and Kurosawa’s achievement in deep focus photography. Wise here uses the half convex glass attached to his
1960 may be the year of the heist film with The League of Gentleman in England and Ocean’s 11 on the other side of the pond. Basil Dearden (one of the co-directors of 1945’s Dead
Like many anthology films—Kurosawa’s eight part Dreams is uneven--- the best sections are as good as anything he’s done since High and Low- but there are regrettable sections that may make you say “wow- this
From Saul Bass’ gorgeous opening credits with Bernard Herrmann’s score (it has to be his finest, right?)—it is clear this film is different- even for Hitchcock—both his most ambitious film, the height of his perfectionism--
This is an intimidating film to try to say anything about with one viewing. It is a work of almost infinite creativity (Kaufman’s skills as a writer matched by the visual artist in this effort)
It does not come close to touching von Sternberg’s all-time of a year the year before in 1930 (The Blue Angel, Morocco)—but there are still enough elements to land it (barely) into the archives Based
best film: Battleship Potemkin from Eisenstein Pure cinematic excellence, a stylistic shock wave, a masterful collage of images—Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin stands alone as the greatest single achievement in film editing. Murnau is important—absolutely- what he did with
It is a brilliant premise- one of those films can sum up and get someone intrigued in thirty seconds—a young boy who is known for his tall tales, witnesses a murder through a window in
