Suddenly In The Dark
Suddenly In The Dark (1981) is a soapy Korean exploitation film that barrows from a cross-section of semi-related genres to tell its tale of a housewife on the verge of… Read more »
Thunder On The Hill
In Douglas Sirk’s melodramatic thriller Thunder On The Hill (1951) Godliness and faith are entirely the providence of women. What’s remarkably proto-feminist is that this enclave of the faithful is… Read more »
The Cat & The Canary
It’s always interesting to see a filmmaker depart from their modus operandi. I have always felt that The Alley Cats (1966) was Radley Metzger’s best film, not because it adhere’s… Read more »
Le Silence de Lorna
Le Silence de Lorna (2008) continues Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne’s interest in constructing character studies of people living on society’s margins. As is characteristic of their work, the film takes… Read more »
La Momia Azteca
Half a millennia ago, an Aztec maiden (Rosa Arenas) and a fierce warrior are executed for forsaking the laws of their gods. Then, in the present, Dr. Almada (Ramón Gay)… Read more »
City War
City War (1988) reunites A Better Tomorrow (1986) stars Chow Yun-fat and Ti Lung for a gritty police thriller. Helmed by Shaw Brothers veteran Sun Chung, City War is more… Read more »
Demolition Man
In 1993 Schwarzenegger had Last Action Hero and Stallone had Demolition Man. Both films satirized the action blockbusters that these two actors dominated in the eighties while also, tongue in… Read more »
Nora-neko rokku: Mashin animaru
Nora-neko rokku: Mashin animaru or Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal (1970) is the fourth film in the Stray Cat Rock series. This time out, Maya (Meiko Kaji) and her gang… Read more »
Un cœur en hiver
Un cœur en hiver (1992) was Claude Sautet’s penultimate film. With this and Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud (1995) Sautet had reached the pinnacle of his powers as a filmmaker. Sautet’s… Read more »
Ikiru
Ikiru (1952) tells the story of an older sararīman named Kani Watanabe (Takashi Shimura) who is diagnosed with stomach cancer, prompting the bureaucrat to actually “live”. With Ikiru Akira Kurosawa… Read more »
