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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

187. French director Marcel Carné’s “Les Enfants du Paradis” (The Children of Paradise) (1945): A memorable film on unrequited love, a film in which everyone smiles in every situation

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M imes and circus clowns are sad personae who are loved by their audiences. Marcel Carné’s The Children of Paradise , if you ha...
Sunday, November 01, 2015

186. US directors Frank Perry’s and Sydney Pollack’s “The Swimmer” (1968): Social satire on the typical WASP US male, an abstract morality tale, rewinding in time, presented with intelligence, rarely encountered in Hollywood cinema

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S hort stories have made interesting feature films. In the UK, short-story writer Alan Sillitoe...
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Monday, October 19, 2015

185. Soviet/Russian maestro Sergei Eisenstein’s “Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot” (completed in 1946, released in 1958): Cinematic art beyond a veiled critique of Stalin

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T he early works of Sergei Eisenstein such as The Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October:...
Friday, October 09, 2015

184. US director Bennett Miller’s “Foxcatcher” (2014): Transcending the sport and the true events

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F oxcatcher is an amazing work of cinema from USA that recalls the quality of evolved filmmaking that one associate w...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

183. Russian director Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky’s US film “Runaway Train” (1985): An unusual Hollywood film that intensely deals with philosophy and the choices one makes in life

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Lady Anne:  “ No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity ”  King Richard: “ But I know no...