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Thursday, December 24, 2009

94. French maestro Jacques Rivette’s “Around a Small Mountain (36 vues du Pic Saint Loup)" (2009): Deceptively simple cinema

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T o appreciate Rivette’s cinema one has to look beyond the obvious show—in this particular case a traveling circus in France, a ...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

93. Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami’s "Shirin" (2008): Audacious experimentation that’s awesome

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N o feature film has ever been made this way. Shirin , the latest work of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami is based on a love myth of K...
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Sunday, December 20, 2009

92. Polish director and scriptwriter Urszula Antoniak's debut film "Nothing Personal" (2009): Amazing tale on solitude beautifully told

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S olitude is often craved for by individuals who are thinkers (and sometimes by misanthropes, due...
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Thursday, December 03, 2009

91. British director Stephen Frears’ “The Hit” (1984) (UK): Dissecting duality in personalities

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O ften filmmakers unconsciously choose subjects and scripts that they find interesting, unaware of links between the subjects. My guess is ...
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Friday, October 02, 2009

90. US director Terrence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line" (1998): “What’s this war in the heart of nature?”

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I f I were to state that the most interesting filmmaker alive and making films today is an American named Terrence Malick, the statement i...
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Sunday, September 13, 2009

89. Chinese director Wang Quan’an’s “Tuya’s marriage” (2006): A wedding that looks back at marriage and life

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T he emerging cinema of mainland China offers quite a different whiff of fresh air compared to the new winds of change in cinema that one e...
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009

88. Russian director Khuat Akhmetov’s “Chelovek-veter” (Wind Man) (2007): Marquez in Kazakhstan

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M any cinematic memories flashed in my mind as this Russian film, set in Asia, began unspooling. “ Wind man ” was the nick name of Akira Ku...
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Sunday, August 02, 2009

87. Italian director Francesco Rosi’s “Tre fratelli” (Three Brothers) (1981): Look back without anger

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F rancesco Rosi’s film Three Brothers would be better appreciated if we refer and compare the film to the short story (the translation is ...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009

86. Actor Tommy Lee Jones’ debut directorial effort "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" (USA/France) (2005): Amazing grey actions in life

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T he more you reflect on The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada , the more you begin to appreciate what the value-added film has to offer ...
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Monday, June 22, 2009

85. British director Roland Joffe’s “The Mission” (1986) (UK): A script for all seasons

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T he Mission is a movie set in South America delving on the Spanish/Portuguese colonization in the 17th century. Some viewers of the film...
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