General Idi Amin Dada
Of the four films I have seen by Barbet Schroeder, General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974) is certainly the most interesting and memorable. The three other films by… Read more »
Film
No matter how proven Samuel Beckett may be in the arena of the theater, his single attempt at filmmaking remains somewhat stunted by the medium of film itself. To recreate… Read more »
Davy Crockett
I have few vivid memories of my grandfather. One of them is of going to a small carnival in the woods out near his home in Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania. I… Read more »
Stranger Than Paradise
I remember the first time that I journeyed to south Florida. All I really knew about Florida before making the trip came from Norman Mailer’s book Miami & The Siege of… Read more »
Fish Tank
Andrea Arnold’s Fish Tank (2009) won the Jury Prize at Cannes and received almost exclusively rave reviews upon its initial release. Fish Tank utilizes contemporary cinematic tactics such as a… Read more »
Der letzte Mann
Murnau, Lang, and Weine are three of the most world renowned German Filmmakers of all time. It was at the dawn of the 1920s that Germany experienced a renaissance of… Read more »
Festen
The evolution of camera language in the cinema is constantly at work. Either the camera itself is changing or the style and idea of frame is changing. Festen (1998) is… Read more »
The Steel Helmet
It’s typical for war films from any country or region that the film would paint “their” side as heroic and selfless. The issue here is that war films present a… Read more »
Wonder Woman 1984
I can’t see why Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) is getting such a negative reaction. Patty Jenkins has really out done the first film in the franchise. Jenkins’ latest installment joins… Read more »
Effi Briest
The influence of Protestantism and the Aufklärung cannot, as so often is the case, be neglected in the analysis of German, Hungarian, Austrian, Dutch, Latvian, Polish, Lithuanian, and Swedish cinemas…. Read more »
