▼
Sunday, May 31, 2015

178. British director and screenplay writer Mike Leigh’s “Mr Turner” (2014) based on his own original screenplay: A cinematic canvas providing perspective and colour to the mind and soul of one of England’s finest painters

›
J MW Turner and John Constable were two of the finest painters in Nineteenth century England re...
Thursday, May 21, 2015

177. Swedish director Ruben Östlund’s “Force Majeure” (Turist) (2014), based on his original story/script: Cowardice (and heroism) of an ideal father figure in a modern family

›
W hat is force majeure ? Force majeure — or vis major — meaning "superior force,” is also known as cas fortuit ...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

176. Japanese director Naomi Kawase’s “Still the Water” (Futatsume no mado) (2014): A perspective on death, grief, and continuity for those alive and questioning their lives’ meaning

›
N aomi Kawase stated that she expected to win the Golden Palm at the 2014 Cannes film festival for her film S...
Sunday, March 29, 2015

175. Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Winter Sleep” (Kis Uykusu) (2014): Top-notch contemporary cinema that will satiate a patient, intelligent viewer

›
W inter Sleep is one of the outstanding cinematic works of 2014. Winter Sleep is a daunting 196 minutes long movie an...
Friday, February 13, 2015

174. Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s francophone film “Two Days, One Night” (Deux jours, une nuit) (2014): Ethics and self-interest in a job-insecure world

›
T he Dardenne brothers’ work Two Days, One Night is typical of a movie that makes you think beyond its apparent light-hear...
Friday, January 30, 2015

173. US director Damien Chazelle’s second feature film “Whiplash” (2014): The ultimate Svengali levelled

›
“ I saw a drive in him” — Terence Fletcher in Whiplash, referring to his former student Sean Casey  “ The next Charlie Parker wo...
4 comments: