Directed by Louis Malle
Synopsis from the Criterion website:
“After garnering international acclaim for such seminal crowd-pleasers as The Lovers and Zazie dans le métro,Louis Malle gave his fans a shock with The Fire Within (Le feu follet), a penetrating study of individual and social inertia. Maurice Ronet (Elevator to the Gallows), in an implosive, haunted performance, [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 31, 2009
The Fire Within
January 31, 2009
Revolutionary Road
Directed by Sam Mendes, based on the novel by Richard Yates
Synopsis from IMDB:
“April and Frank Wheeler are a young, thriving couple living with their two children in a Connecticut suburb in the mid-1950s. Their self-assured exterior masks a creeping frustration at their inability to feel fulfilled in their relationships or careers. Frank is mired in [...]
January 31, 2009
Lights in the Dusk
By Aki Kaurismaki
Synopsis from IMDB:
Koistenin is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He’s a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near his work. Out of the blue, a [...]
January 31, 2009
The Man Without A Past
By Aki Kaurismaki
Synopsis from IMDB:
The second part of Aki Kaurismäki’s “Finland” trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the [...]
January 14, 2009
Shock Corridor
Written and Dircected by Samuel Fuller
Synopsis (from IMDB.com)
Johnny Barrett, an ambitious journalist, is determined to win a Pulitzer Prize by solving a murder committed in a lunatic asylum and witnessed only by three inmates, from whom the police have been unable to extract the information. With the connivance of a psychiatrist, and the reluctant help [...]
January 14, 2009
Written on the Wind
Written on the wind is a great melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk. Sirk was a major inspiration to many directors including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and even Todd Haynes. Sirk made many melodramas, dealing with relationships, and all the emotions of human life.
Written on the Wind is a glossy, technicolor picture from 1956, and it is [...]
January 13, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire at the Golden Globes
In addition to my last post, I would also like to add that Slumdog Millionaire won several Golden Globes. The Golden Globes are awarded by the Hollywood Foreign Press – a group of international journalists in the greater LA area. There are about 50 members I believe, from all around the world.
Best motion picture – [...]
January 13, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire
Slumdog Millionaire is one of the most talked about movies of the year. Directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later), it has been on both viewers and critics top 5 lists lately. I saw this at the Garneau Theater a few weeks ago, and it definitely lived up to alot of the hype.
First off, [...]
January 13, 2009
Weddings!
Without further ado, some photos from the summer’s weddings.
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