On paper, since I have started putting a number value to various aspects of these films, The Double Life of Veronique (1991) is, in my opinion, the greatest film, topping The Tales of Hoffmann by three measly points. This is the tops for me, statistically. This is one of the reasons why I question having […]
Read more "The Double Life of Veronique"I started with Scenes from a Marriage (1973) and finished with Fanny och Alexander (1983). Both are directed by Ingmar Bergman.
Read more "Weekly Brief – August 10-16 (Swedish Miniseries week)"Federico Fellini tells the story of a director, struggling to tell a story he wanted to tell, in the confines of what the production company wants to see.
Read more "Federico Fellini’s 8 1/2"This film is a memory and a dream. It is a series of stressed chain links holding up a piano that dangles over the viewer.
Read more "Mirror"Sometimes I sit down and watch a film with some preconceived notions of what will entertain me. I had watched the first twenty-odd minutes of The Passion of Joan of Arc several months ago, before I started working through the films on the Sight and Sound list, and I cannot say that I was really […]
Read more "The Passion of Joan of Arc"Pierrot le Fou is about an asshole who is so unhappy in his marriage he decides he is better off running away with a babysitter to write a novel.
Read more "Pierrot le Fou"I have no idea where to start when considering Le Mepris. Jean-Luc Godard has challenged me again. I suppose that may be the point of the film, though. Le Mépris (or Contempt) is a 1963 film by Jean-Luc Godard starring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance, and Fritz Lang and is a film adapting a […]
Read more "Le Mepris"The film follows Gertrud and her experiences of falling in love with a young musician named Erland Janssen and chooses to leave her husband.
Read more "Gertrud"The film captures a love affair between Claudia and Sandro after the disappearance of Anna who goes missing while vacationing on a yacht.
Read more "L’Avventura"F.W. Murnau directed Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, a silent film that lives up to its name, makes you question love, and forces giggles at drunken piglets.
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