Bis ans Ende der Welt
Bis ans Ende der Welt (1991), also known as Until The End Of The World in english, represents the culmination of filmmaker Wim Wenders’ career up until that point. The… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Three Songs About Lenin
Dziga Vertov’s Three Songs About Lenin (1934) is a documentary feature that was made to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Vladimir Lenin’s death. Vertov was commissioned to make Three Songs… Read more »
Où gît votre sourire enfoui?
“…then they discovered cinema and slowly we became friends.” – Danièle Huillet Où gît votre sourire enfoui? (2001), or in english Where Does Your Hidden Smile Lie?, is a filmed… Read more »
Pierwsza miłość
Pierwsza miłość (1974) is a made for television docudrama written and directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski. The film follows Jadwiga (age 17) and her boyfriend Roman (age 20) in the wake… Read more »
Hudutların Kanunu
Scratched, dirty, and with frames missing, the lone surviving print of Lütfi Ömer Akad’s Hudutların Kanunu (1966) is a worn and weary mess. But the physical condition of the film… Read more »
Raising Cain
Though much reviled when first released theatrically, Raising Cain (1992) has grown in its critical estimation since undergoing a re-cut in 2012 by Peet Gelderblom. The Gelderblom version of Raising… Read more »
Light & Magic
With regards to special effects Industrial Light & Magic has been the cutting edge and industry standard since George Lucas founded it in 1975 to work on his film Star… Read more »
Fade To Black
Vernon Zimmerman’s Fade To Black (1980) follows the popular trend of the psychological thriller of the seventies, charting an anti-hero’s mental deterioration. Fade To Black doesn’t take itself seriously like… Read more »
There’s Always Tomorrow
Compared to the other films that director Douglas Sirk directed for producer Ross Hunter at Universal Pictures There’s Always Tomorrow (1956) is one of the more overlooked. Sirk, whose films… Read more »
Prey
When the buzz around Prey (2022) first started to go around social media I became very excited having wrongly assumed audiences had rediscovered Norman J. Warren’s film from 1977. Dan… Read more »
