Red: Listening and Judging

Samuel Le Bihan and Irène Jacob. Photo: Canal+ We already knew this would be Krzysztof Kieslowski’s last film, because he had said as much after its premiere. Two years later,…

Blue 

When her composer husband and their daughter are killed in a car crash, Julie de Courcy (Juliette Binoche) tries to isolate herself from her previous life… The first chapter of…

Barry Lyndon: Life of a Doomed Man

Photo: Warner After A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stanley Kubrick became interested in adapting a novel from the 1800s, William Makepeace Thackeray’s ”Vanity Fair”. When he found out that a TV…

The Bridges of Madison County 

When two Iowa siblings get involved with the settlement of their dead mother’s estate, they learn that in 1965 she had an affair with a photographer who was there to…

Henry V: Branagh and the Bard

Photo: Renaissance Films When I was a teenager, my class was treated to a performance of Shakespeare’s ”Hamlet”. It was not a bad production; the young leading actors later became…

Gone With the Wind: Fall of the Old South

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Photo: MGM Last August, news came that a cinema in Memphis, Tennessee had decided not to screen Gone With the Wind because of numerous complaints.…

Christmas Inheritance 

The wealthy owner of a gift business sends his spoilt daughter (Eliza Taylor) to a small town called Snow Falls where she must deliver a special Christmas card to her…

A Christmas Prince 

Young journalist Amber Moore (Rose McIver) finally gets a chance to cover something real – a press conference in the country of Aldovia where Prince Richard (Ben Lamb) is set…

Fanny and Alexander: Dark Christmas

Bertil Guve. Photo: SFI Ingmar Bergman would have been 100 years old next year, so in his honor Stockholm’s leading department store dedicated their annual Christmas window display to Fanny…

Wuthering Heights 

In the early 1800s, the Earnshaw family takes in a dark-skinned boy (Solomon Glave); resented by their son, Heathcliff nevertheless forms a bond with the daughter (Shannon Beer). Andrea Arnold’s…