The Thief of Bagdad – Review
The Thief of Bagdad is a large, beautifu, 1940 musical by Michael Powell, of The Red Shoes fame, and Ludwig…
11 years ago
Weekly Brief – August 10-16 (Swedish Miniseries week)
I started with Scenes from a Marriage (1973) and finished with Fanny och Alexander (1983). Both are directed by Ingmar…
11 years ago
How I Rate Films I Watch
How I rate films I watch First and foremost any and all film ranking system is completely subjective. Someone will…
11 years ago
Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2
Federico Fellini tells the story of a director, struggling to tell a story he wanted to tell, in the confines…
11 years ago
The General
A (mostly) accurate account of the theft of The General, a Civil War locomotive, is a solid representation of slapstick…
11 years ago
Metropolis
Metropolis is the story of a wealthy family, Joh Frederson and his son Freder, in control of the labor that…
11 years ago
The Battle of Algiers
The Battle Algiers tells the story of the revolution in Algiers as neutrally as possible, and they did a pretty…
11 years ago
Mirror
This film is a memory and a dream. It is a series of stressed chain links holding up a piano…
11 years ago
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Sometimes I sit down and watch a film with some preconceived notions of what will entertain me. I had watched…
11 years ago
Seven Samurai
The film is about the seven samurai that help a small village to withstand an onslaught by bandits. It is…
11 years ago