The production started while the screenplay wasn’t ready. Costs quickly overran. Montage turned into a nightmare. The final cut was shorter than the director’s project. Success was tepid. It is not a well-liked movie. Is it worth another look?

On the face of it the feature looks like a lengthened short, a stretched observational effort that is carefully depicting the most mundane elements of the day in the life of a sales assistant in a big shop of clothes and fabrics in the big city of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu…

“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring”, Carl Theodor Dreyer once said about the importance of the human face in cinema. “Vivre sa vie” seems built and shaped around this artistic principle…

A young man walks across a field. He stops by a river to drink; when he lifts his face from the water, he sees a dead body is floating downstream. Shot in long shot and medium close shot, the opening sequence captures the tragic position of Heron de Foix. He has left Paris where he studied in order to…

The meeting occurs in the most unexpected circumstances. Bruno Winter pulled off his jalopy of a truck on a drab riverbank to spend the night between two stops in his never-ending tour of small towns to do his job: he is an itinerant projectionist…

Overcoming his spleen and following the advice of his mother, Wilhelm decides to travel around in the hope to kick-start a career as a writer. He intends to go to Bonn, then West Germany’s political capital; but his travel becomes unwieldy and unexpected under the influence…

Even if the title brings to mind the novel of Lewis Carroll this is not a tour in a parallel, fantastic world but in the urban places of the Western modernity while embracing an even wider scope: the film begins with the image of an airliner scudding through the sky…

The background of the narrative is the widespread fighting between warlords that wreaked havoc to Japan over the 16th century, before one of them overrode his enemies, heralding the long period of political stability and iron-clad, moralistic military rule known as the Tokugawa era. The events occur…

After starting a career as painter and then moving to cinema to create abstract films, Walter Ruttmann decides to shoot a new kind of film that would be a visual symphony composed with the millions of energy comprising the life of the German metropolis. “Berlin: the Symphony of a…

Adam Cramer is a professional troublemaker sent by a far-right organization based in Washington, DC, to a little town of the Deep South, to marshal the local population in a fresh attempt to prevent the enforcement of the landmark ruling of the US Supreme Court on desegregation in…

Two young Jesuits priests, Padre Rodrigues and Padre Garupe, set out to travel to Japan in 1638 to find Padre Ferreira, who used to teach them the faith, has led a proselytizing drive in Japan but is now said to be an apostate. As soon as they arrived they are welcomed…

The way the long titles, which are projected on television footage of a riot, presents the cast indicates the narrative of “La haine” revolves around three different world: the community living in a huge urban project in a suburban town where much of the plot takes place, the police forces…

In the eyes of chiefs of the Unites States military in Vietnam, the apocalypse is coming under the guise of a turncoat, a Special Forces colonel launching unilateral and uncontrolled attacks from inside Cambodia against the Vietnamese Communists. He has gone crazy and thus dangerous…

When Mrs. Park starts harping on the psychological flaws but great artistic talent of the other kid in the house, her son Da-song, Ki-woo gets what is a real, sudden and amazing, inspiration. He pretends to know an artist who dabbles in psychology, an American-educated genius who could provide advice and help…

The first part of “Chung hing sam lam – Chungking Express” brings us on the seedy side of Hong Kong as the camera tracks a blonde woman always wearing sunglasses and a raincoat and dealing with Indian immigrants paid to carry drugs illegally through the borders. She…