Szerelmem, Elektra
Szerelmem, Elektra (1974) is a reinvention of the Greek myth Electra by filmmaker Miklós Jancsó. Jancsó continues to strip back the medium even more than his previous films, staging the… Read more »
Szerelmem, Elektra (1974) is a reinvention of the Greek myth Electra by filmmaker Miklós Jancsó. Jancsó continues to strip back the medium even more than his previous films, staging the… Read more »
I first saw Legend Of The Mountain (1979) four years ago on a Masters Of Cinema Blu-Ray. It’s still the most visually stunning wuxia film I have ever seen. I… Read more »
Richard Kelly’s follow-up to the beloved Donnie Darko (2001) is a hodge-podge of desperate ideas and styles unified by a handful of loosely connected narrative threads. Southland Tales (2006) may… Read more »
Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter (1978) remains a cinematic touchstone for a generation traumatized by the Vietnam War. The Deer Hunter‘s high regard has diminished slightly since, when reevaluations in… Read more »
Kiff Scholl’s Scream of the Bikini (2009) is a spoof of such sixties classics as The Million Eyes Of Su Muru (1967), Modesty Blaise (1966), and the films of Armando… Read more »
Córki dancingu (2015), or The Lure in English speaking countries, may just be the best fantasy film of the last decade, and it’s a musical. Agnieszka Smoczyńska reworks Hans Christian… Read more »
Director Noriaki Yuasa was the creative force behind Daiei Film Company’s Gamera franchise, so a film adaptation of a manga about rival sisters may seem like an unorthodox choice for… Read more »
When I met John Sayles at a preview screening of his film Honeydripper (2007) I was struck by two things on my first impression. The first was the size and… Read more »
We must find a way to eliminate the erotic element that is imposed upon us. But it is very difficult to make fantasy films here. It is a genre which… Read more »
Pola Negri and Ernst Lubitsch knew each other from the Berlin stage before they ever made a film together. And, if one is to believe Norman Zierold, Lubitsch got the… Read more »