Film

This is a Norwegian film reflecting Skandi noir at its best and most gory. The story is relatively simple. A noble citizen Nils Dickman (Stellan Skarsgard), who clears the snow with his snow plough , receiving a civic award for his work ,  has his son shot as he is mistakenly assumed to have [...]

Ang Lee is now an international director of renown ( Brokeback Mounatin) but the Taiwan cineaste  plied his trade with Far Eastern movies which I prefer to his more commercial works like Hidden Tiger, Crouching Tiger . One such I watched for the third time yesterday, namely Lust, Caution. Some [...]

I am sure that I have seen this Hitchcock/Selznick production starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman before but it was sufficiently long ago that I did not recall much of the plot. It was showing on the excellent Talking Picture channel. Ingrid Bergman plays the daughter of a Nazi convicted in a [...]

This is the latest Juliette Binoche film set in social media and the fantasy relationships it can generate. Juliette Binoche plays Clare Milaud, a fifty something professor of French literature. After her husband leaves her for a younger woman and her lover Ludo rejects her, she tries a new [...]

I recently watched The Malta Story for the third time. I was motivated by reading The Information Officer reviewed on The Rust. The film has a romantic sub-plot with the love affaire between Peter Ross, a flight reconnaissance airman (Alec Guinness), and local girl Maria (Muriel Pavlow). However [...]