Gniazdo
Gniazdo (1974) opens on the eve of the decisive Battle of Cedynia in June, 972. Mieszko I (Wojciech Pszoniak) is stricken by a terrible fever. Delusional, Mieszko I hallucinates his… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Of Freaks & Men
Russian filmmaker Aleksei Balabanov is best known for his crime film Brother (1997), however many of Balabanov’s early features draw on the traditions of surrealism as well as the Theatre… Read more »
Some Girls Do
Ralph Thomas followed his Bulldog Drummond caper Deadlier Than The Male (1967) with the sequel Some Girls Do (1969). This time insurance man Drummond (Richard Johnson) is out investigating a… Read more »
Tenebre
After creating the dreamy masterpiece Inferno (1980), filmmaker Dario Argento returned to the giallo genre that he had popularized in the late sixties. But the film that Argento made, Tenebre… Read more »
Das singende, klingende Bäumchen
In the years following its original release, Das singende, klingende Bäumchen (1957) became something of a staple on British television during the holidays. As Christmas drew ever closer, Das singende,… Read more »
The War Lord
The War Lord (1965) is a historical epic caught between the romantic pageantry of Cecil B. DeMille when Henry Wilcoxon was a matinee idol and the kinetic brutality of the… Read more »
Breathless
À bout de souffle (1960) is the pinnacle of modernist minimalism. Jean-Luc Godard’s formally adventurous debut feature reduced and deconstructed the forms of its genre, via temporal ellipsis motivated by… Read more »
Unlawful Entry
From making quickie B-Movies for Roger Corman to working off-Broadway with Elaine May, Jonathan Kaplan had seemingly done it all. But as Corman’s tenure as the King of B-Movies waned… Read more »
The Last Waltz
Last Thursday, on Thanksgiving Day, many Americans gathered around their televisions in food induced stupors to return once again to the annual tradition of watching Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz… Read more »
Funny People
Judd Apatow’s personal epic Funny People (2009) is a tribute to its star Adam Sandler and a reflection on the price of fame. Apatow draws inspiration from Fitzgerald’s The Great… Read more »
