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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

198. Italian maestro Luchino Visconti’s “Gruppo di famiglia in un interno” (Conversation Piece) (1974) (Italy): “Grief is as precarious as anything else”

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C onversation Piece-- the penultimate feature film of Luchino Visconti--is a complex, often confusing and ye...
Sunday, October 02, 2016

197. US director Terrence Malick’s “Knight of Cups” (2016) (USA): A personal and intense theological statement pushing the envelope of theism

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N ot many films would end with the enigmatic word “Begin.” Knight of Cups ends that way. That gives one a c...
Monday, September 19, 2016

196. Russian director-duo Grigory Kozintsev’s and Leonid Trauberg’s silent film “Novyy Vavilon” (The New Babylon) (1929) (former USSR/France), with music by Dimitri Shostakovich: One of the most laudable silent films ever made that has surfaced recently

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The exaggeration of the film's actors... ...is fundamental to the film T he New Babylon is a Russian silent film, mad...
Monday, August 08, 2016

195. Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s “El abrazo de la serpiente” (Embrace of the Serpent) (2015) (Colombia/Argentina/Venezuela): An amazing film with deep insights on nature and civilization dedicated to “peoples whose song we will never know.”

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Both posters above are predominantly in black and white, while colour is utilized sparingly and effectively,  as in the film ...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

194. Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s Farsi/Persian language film “Taxi” (2015), based on his own original screenplay: Very interesting subject but intriguing cinematic docu-fiction.

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T he difficult Kafkaesque conditions for the intellectuals and the financially insecure in Iran discuss...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

193. Icelandic director Grímur Hákonarson’s film “Hrútar” (Rams) (2015), based on his own original screenplay: Unusual tale of sibling hatred and bonding

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Rams is an unusual tale, remarkably told. Rams are male sheep and the entire film is appropriately about two dour male, ha...
Saturday, April 23, 2016

192. Chilean director Patricio Guzmán’s spellbinding documentary feature film “El botón de nácar” (The Pearl Button) (2015): A powerful, poetic essay interlinking water, memory, buttons, and genocide in Chile’s history

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T he Pearl Button is one of the most thought-provoking and visually stunning docume...