Audiard's great achievement here is to bring a social truism - prison makes petty criminals into hardened ne'er-do-wells - to living, breathing life. Malik, played by the extraordinarily good Rahim, enters prison bewildered and acting tough to cover insecurity; from that point we see his ev...
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, UK/US) By Jason Anderson | 09/26/2022 | CS92, Currency, From Cinema Scope Magazine The image of Paul Mescal lost and losing himself in a crowded, strobe-lit dancefloor is the most haunting leitmotif in Charlotte Wells’ debut feature Aftersun, a film that...
Wells’s novel ‘The War of the Worlds’, which was so convincing it caused widespread panic.His Mercury Theatre group not only produced acclaimed work on stage but also on the airwaves from 1938-40 and again in 1946, with a stock company of actors including Agnes Moorehead, Joseph Cotten,...
Prior to Lynley’s disrobing, actresses who posed for Playboy were either unknown starlets (i.e. Joan Staley, Marianna Gaba, Dolores Wells, etc), buxom fifties blondes of the Jayne Mansfield type, or more free-spirited European sexpots (i.e. Elke Sommer, Ursula Andress, etc.). Carol open...
Wells against Jack the Ripper. The Shout (1978) – This unsettling 1978 sleeper was adapted from a Robert Graves story by Michal Austin and its director, Jerzy Skolimowski. The late John Hurt is excellent as a mild-mannered avant-garde musician who lives in a sleepy English hamlet with ...
day. The documentary uses never-before-seen footage and audio tapes from Capra’s life to examine his career and relationship with America, offering a portrait of a complicated man whose tales of hope in difficult times still speak to audiences today. Written and Directed by Matthew Wells. ...
cuts a handsome figure. He was still in fine athletic shape and performs quite a few action scenes with credibility. Mores the pity that the AIDS that would take his life within the next year was probably already beginning to take its toll on him. Donald Pleasence appears fleetingly but impr...
WALKING ON A SEA OF GLASS Directors: Errol Williams & Rotimi Martins, Documentary, Bermuda 2006 NOISE Director: Babak Meinaghi, Narrative, Iran 2005 Best film/video by a German filmmaker or a filmmaker residing in Germany. *** LUCKY SPIN Director: Colin Sinclair, Narrative, Germany 2006 Best ...
(Charlotte Wells) Return to Seoul. (Davy Chou) The Fabelmans. (Steven Spielberg) Marlowe. (Neil Jordan) Kurak Günler (Burning Days) (Emin Alper) La passion de Dodin Bouffant. (The Taste of Things) (Tran Anh Hung) Rapito. (Kidnapped) ...
Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, UK/US) By Jason Anderson | 09/26/2022 | CS92, Currency, From Cinema Scope Magazine The image of Paul Mescal lost and losing himself in a crowded, strobe-lit dancefloor is the most haunting leitmotif in Charlotte Wells’ debut feature Aftersun, a film that...