His films were influenced by neo-realism and adopted a documentary style of film-making. I examine the strong intertextual links between The Battle of Algiers and Frantz Fanon's writings that emerged out of his involvement with the Algerian war of independence against the French colonizers. I ...
The film can be classified as a throwback, neo-noir escapade, but it’s quite stylistic and fleshed out. It’s well-made with slick elements and Hollywood looks and feels like the lavish production design and musical score, but it’s the seduction and bevy of secrets that will keep viewer...
The film’s ambitions aren’t always met by its languid pacing, but “Another Earth” is a fascinating, sad film about another planet that is grounded in real-world emotion. —WC 60. “The World’s End” “The World’s End”©Focus Features/Courtesy Everett Collection After putting...
It succeeds in transplanting the audience to what Newark, New Jersey was like during that time. Additionally, the filmlooksquite a bit like The Sopranos and is influenced by the legendary 1991 offering Goodfellas and other mafia-laden films. Young Anthony Soprano (Gandolfini) is growing up in ...
Like nearly every working director born in the 1960s, del Toro was greatly influenced by the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Del Toro picks “The Man Who Knew Too Much” as the Master of Suspense’s most influential movie for him, telling Criterion,“There is a haphazard chaos that this version...
and there were so many hotly anticipated films like Monkey Man, Babes, Immaculate, The Idea of You, and performers like The Black Keys, Peso Pluma etc, my north star always directs me to the world premiere feature films without distribution….and whichever Nicolas Cage movie that’s playing...
"Huston's first film displays the hallmarks that were to distinguish his later work: the mocking attitude toward human greed; the cavalier insolence with which plot details are treated almost as asides; the delight in bizarre characterisations... What makes it a prototype film noir is the vein...
IMDB / Eddie Muller's 25 Noir Films That Will Stand the Test of Time Thieves Like Us Robert Altman ● NEO-NOIR / COLOUR NOIR1974, USA, 123m, Col, Crime-Drama-AmericanaScreenplay Calder Willingham, Joan Tewkesbury, Robert Altman (based on the novel by Edward Anderson) Producer Jerry ...
Through me the way that runs among the lost. Justice urged on my high artificer; My Maker was Divine authority, The highest Wisdom, and the primal Love. Before me nothing but eternal things Were made, and I endure eternally. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. ...
Simple as that. 2. Paris, Texas (1984) It was one of the most intense ways of getting into the adult world and I saw it when I was really young. I couldn't believe that there were stories that were so close to reality. It felt like that, it felt very real. 3. Rocco and His...