• Wild Strawberries

    I was trying to get my adult children to see this movie. They had sat through Night of circus me before., But I had to accept that it was very exciting.
    Wild Strawberries was alone, was much warmer and prettier than S & T. The beautiful Bibi Anderson helped, as did the trio [...]

  • OldBoy

    This is one of the most extraordinary films I’ve ever seen. He left me breathless and played in my mind for weeks.
    I would recommend not see him alone without you be scared of his wit, but because you want to talk about it, ask your fellow guard, if you really saw what [...]

  • Ma Mere

    It would give great pleasure the director of the film and perhaps the writer of the original book to read some comments iriate so far. The film undoubtedly loses a couple of times and not so uniform and smooth as could be, but the quality is top notch, especially the main characters (the mother [...]

  • Le Paltoquet

    The nearest English translation of ‘Le Paltouquet’ is ‘entity’, which is a reference to one of the characters in this intriguing extrapolation of a French play. At first it sounds too stageY, but half hour the film, the story expands outward in a deconstruction of an intriguing standard thriller, but instead of a [...]

  • Star Blazers - Series 1 - Part 3

    This series has enthusiastic comments in several places, but I suspect they were people who were in the series when it aired for the first time (sometime in the early eighties - the 1880s, if any). The standard of animation is down there with Hanna-Barbera, and the slow pace seems rather out of [...]

  • Journey To Italy

    Roberto Rossellini was satisfied with the conventional methods of film history to tell and had, in his films with his then wife, Ingrid Bergman, (and those around them) been trying to experiment with something new. “Viaggio in Italia” is the result of these experiments, a film that tells its story almost entirely in a [...]