Posts Tagged ‘mystery’

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (2011)
As soon as this remake of the popular Swedish movie was announced you could hear the hissing of dissent, the sharpening of knives and the flicking of thesaurus pages as people tried to find new words to construct old and familiar complaints. Yet there was also something different about this one, something...
April 30th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Reported Missing (2012)

Reported Missing (2012)
Context, context, context. The major schools of literary criticism (the methods of which can be applied to art in most media) revolve around the question of context: the social, personal, cultural and artistic frames and circumstances under which a work of art was created. Should a work of art be able...
April 25th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Mindfulness and Murder (2011)

Mindfulness and Murder (2011)
Some Buddhist monasteries serve as youth rehabilitation centers. In Mindfulness and Murder, we focus on such a monastery in Bangkok, where a young man is found murdered, placed upside down in a big water jar (probably an intentional reference to that scene from The Name of the Rose). Because the young...
April 10th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Safe House (2012)

Safe House (2012)
When Tobin Frost (Washington) is cornered by potential assassins in the middle of a highly illegal deal he decides the safest course of action is to turn himself into the authorities for protection. However it won’t surprise you to know that the houses of said authorities are far from as safe as...
February 24th, 2012 | Feature, Film Reviews | Read More

Head Winds (2011)

Head Winds (2011)
Trouble resolved in Brittany Jalil Lespert is the star of two of my favorite contemporary French films, Laurent Cantet’s 1999 labor union drama Human Resources and Xavier Beauvois’ emotional 2005 policier, Le petit Lieutenant. He’s a powerful actor. At 36,he’s already establishing...
February 20th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Smoke (2007)

Smoke (2007)
Every once in a while a short film comes along showcasing the talents of someone who truly understands the medium in which they work. This is the case with Grzegorz Cisiecki’s short film, Smoke (original title: Dym). Smoke does not have a narrative per se, Cisiecki describes the film as “the story...
January 18th, 2012 | Film Reviews | Read More

Top Ten Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s

Top Ten Sci-Fi Movies of the 1970s
A lot of interesting, political and experimental things happened in the cinema of the seventies, but it was not a great decade for science fiction movies. Granted, there was a handful of trashy, low-budget sci-fi/horror movies (in that era, Italy could always be depended on to provide those), but apart...
November 17th, 2011 | Feature, Top Ten | Read More

The Conversation (1974)

The Conversation (1974)
The Conversation starts slowly, with the audience not really sure about what is happening.  We slowly realise that the couple we can see walking about are being monitored by a group of men who seem to be following their every move.  It is only when Harry Caul (Hackman) jumps in the back of a clapped...
October 31st, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More

Nobody Else But You (2011)

Nobody Else But You (2011)
A stylish snow-steeped noir, Gérald Hustache-Mathieu’s Nobody Else But You (re-titled from the French Poupoupidou) is one of the most purely enjoyable films of recent years, and a particular treat for cineastes. David (Jean-Paul Rouve, last seen in Luc Besson’s Adèle Blanc-Sec, 2010) is...
October 17th, 2011 | Film Reviews | Read More

Hamlet (1964)

Hamlet (1964)
Kozintsev’s Hamlet, like his King Lear, is one of those movies that are obviously made for a big screen. The locations are detailed and impressive in their scope, effectively setting the scene for a huge imaginary world inspired by Shakespeare’s great play. Each scene has its own visual style and...
October 16th, 2011 | DVD Reviews | Read More
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