A Man and a Woman: Romance for the Ages
Anouk Aimée and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Photo: Les Films 13 ”Claude Lelouch, remember this name well, because you will not hear it again”. That was the cruel verdict of the classic…
It Was Just an Accident: Catching Peg Leg
Mohammed Ali Elyasmehr, Majid Panahi and Hadis Pakbaten. Photo: Neon After the success of this film in Cannes, where it won the Palme d’Or, French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot described…
Anora: Chasing Vanya
Mark Eydelshteyn and Mikey Madison. Photo: Neon The day after watching this film as part of the opening of this year’s Stockholm Film Festival, I was telling a co-worker about…
Parasite: Movin’ On Up
Choi Woo-shik, Song Kang-ho, Jang Hye-jin and Park So-dam. Photo: CJ Entertainment As fall descended on us this year, it became increasingly clear that class warfare was going to be…
Lost Weekend: Life in a Bottle
Ray Milland. Photo: Paramount The story of The Lost Weekend didn’t start out too well. Audiences laughed during the first preview in Santa Barbara, and some wrote on their cards…
Wages of Fear: Road to Hell
Photo: Cinédis When this film was made, Yves Montand carried enough clout to reportedly make director Henri-Georges Clouzot change his mind on where to shoot it. Clouzot's original plans were…
Amour: In Sickness and in Health
Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva. Photo: Les Films du Losange Welcome to the ever-fascinating journey of the cinema of Michael Haneke. When I started writing this review I began by…
The White Ribbon: Reap What You Sow
Photo: Wega Film I have a conflicted relationship with director Michael Haneke. The first film I saw was Funny Games (1997), which I found somewhat pointless. The second one was…
Marty: Breaking the Rut
Betsy Blair and Ernest Borgnine. Photo: MGM Paddy Chayefsky originally wrote this story as a teleplay, which was filmed in 1953 as part of The Goodyear Television Playhouse, an anthology…
Blowup: Don’t Analyze It to Death
Photo: MGM I saw this movie a couple of times when I was a film student and rediscovering it ten years later was a delight. Perhaps it is one of…