A lament of the cancellation of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival, and recommend past Palme d’Or recipients you can stream right now, including a personal favorite, The Tree of Life. Continue reading
Category: Outlets
THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG)
Director Jacques Demy sought to make a movie that would make audiences cry. He succeeded in spades. It helps that Michelle Legrande provided one of the most indelible film scores of all time, and cinematographer Jean Rabier found the sourness … Continue reading THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG (LES PARAPLUIES DE CHERBOURG)
DANCER IN THE DARK
Danish filmmaker Lars von Trier is a sadist, and a proud one at that. He likes to put his characters (mostly women) through hell and back just to see if they’ll come out the other side. They do, and it’s … Continue reading DANCER IN THE DARK
Home Viewing: Palme d’Or
The origins of France’s Cannes Film Festival lay not in La République, but neighboring Italy. Specifically, 1937’s Venice Film Festival, when Benito Mussolini stuck his big, fat fascist fingers in the mix and ensured that The Grand Illusion from French … Continue reading Home Viewing: Palme d’Or
THE TREE OF LIFE
Someday we’ll fall down and weep, and we’ll understand it all. All things. —Mr. O’Brien, The Tree of Life For two weeks every May, the world of cinema turns to the beaches of Southern France as the Cannes Film Festival … Continue reading THE TREE OF LIFE
On this week’s After Image, I chat with Veronica Straight-Lingo about Blow the Man Down (available on Amazon Prime), and recommend a couple of from Alfred Hitchcock, specifically Frenzy, The 39 Steps, and Shadow of a Doubt. Listen to After Image, Fridays at … Continue reading
Home Viewing: Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock may not have invented the moving image, but he defined what it was capable of. The son of a London grocer, Hitchcock’s career began in the silent era, at Germany’s famed UFA studios, before returning to England as … Continue reading Home Viewing: Alfred Hitchcock
BLOW THE MAN DOWN
The rocky, seaside village of Easter Cove, Maine, does not look like the kind of place you’d want to spend a winter. The snow piles up in great heaps, and the wind coming off the water will send an icicle … Continue reading BLOW THE MAN DOWN
THE TRIAL
Based on a novel by Franz Kafka, The Trail is filmmaker Orson Welles at his most Wellesian. Anthony Perkins stars as K, a man accused of a crime he neither committed nor comprehends. K can ask all the questions he wants, but … Continue reading THE TRIAL
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