Je t’Aime, Je t’Aime
Memory and its experience is the central subject of Alain Resnais’ film Je t’Aime, Je t’Aime (1968). Je t’Aime, Je t’Aime is a much bolder approach to the philosophical writings of Henri… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Tunes Of Glory
Film director Ronald Neame is best known for his two later day American productions The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and Hopscotch (1980). However, Neame’s personal favorite, and most significant film is Tunes Of Glory… Read more »
Free Enterprise
Free Enterprise (2000) is a film made by two trekkies about two trekkies about to enter their thirties and how they navigate their daily love lives and jobs with the… Read more »
Lulu In Berlin
It’s not difficult to see why Louise Brooks remains one of the most captivating personas of the silent cinema. Even in her day her look and her talent for acting… Read more »
Elmer Gantry
Very rarely does one film achieve a synchronicity in both its drama and its technical achievement; but Elmer Gantry (1960) succeeds. And Brooks directs this synchronicity through the bravura performance of… Read more »
Thor: Ragnarok
So when is Jack Kirby’s Silver Star ever going to get made? Thor: Ragnarok (2017) brings audiences one film closer to Thanos in the upcoming Avengers film. It is a… Read more »
Patriot Games
Paramount Pictures acquired the rights to two Tom Clancy novels in the late eighties that they turned over to Phillip Noyce, a veteran director of thrillers, to direct as vehicles… Read more »
The Naked Prey
“Africa splashed into the consciousness of the rest of the world in July 1960 with the eruption of the newly independent Congo, all but forgotten since the days of the… Read more »
BlacKKKlansman
“Dreams we dream alone is only a dream, but dreams we dream together is reality” – Yoko Ono, 1971 Fantasy is at the heart of Spike Lee’s film BlacKKKlansman (2018)…. Read more »
J’embrasse pas
J’embrasse pas (1991) is the culmination, in many respects, to a long meditation on the psychological turmoil of youth, a meditation that has undergone a number of revisions from film… Read more »
