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127 Hours comes from Danny Boyle who is a very good director. His works are very varied, ranging from 28 Days Later (2002) an infected people thriller to Sunshine (2007) a sci-fi adventure film to Slumdog Millionaire (2008) a feel good drama. This time the story is true which is incredible. It is a very interesting one and I think that the test for any movie inspired by real life [read...] 
Based on the novel by writer William Goldman, John Schlesinger’s 1976 thriller Marathon Man marked his second collaboration with Dustin Hoffman who he first worked with on the 1969 counter-culture classic Midnight Cowboy. At a bank in New York City an elderly man named Klaus Szell (Ben Dova) checks on a small box of priceless diamonds he keeps there. While driving through the city, his car stalls and another old [read...] 
In the opening moments of Rudolph Mate’s suspense heavy film noir masterpiece D.O.A. (1950) star Edmond O’Brien is filmed in a tracking shot as composer Dimitri Tiompkin’s barreling percussion and tension filled strings accompany the images on the screen. As O’Brien’s character walks into police headquarters his motivation for doing so is unknown until the credits end and he opens the Homicide Division’s office door. He is introduced to us [read...] 
Ridley Scott’s latest is one of our most anticipated films of the year and from the looks of the new trailer it has epic written all over it. It’s been decades since the director of such classics as Alien and Blade Runner has worked in the science fiction genre so this is also really a return to his roots. The dynamic vision he brought to those groundbreaking projects is definitely [read...] 
It’s Mayhem! 20 days after the screening of the very good and shocking The Woman it is time for THE Horror Fest in Nottingham. The late night screening of this first festival day was the latest horror anthology by seven well-known directors. The Theatre Bizarre (imdb) includes seven short segments of approx. 20 minutes length each, and as you will see: it combines several incredible genres and styles to build [read...] 
Since their debut in 1984, The Coen Brothers have been two of the most interesting writer-directors of offbeat genre cinema and their 1996 black crime-comedy Fargo remains one of their very best works. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a passive-aggressive car salesman who travels to Fargo, North Dakota to hire two lowlife criminals, Carl Showalter (Steve Buscemi) and Gaer Grimsrud (Peter Stormare) to kidnap his wife so he can [read...] There have been several important director/composer collaborations throughout cinema history and one of its most well established and unique was Alfred Hitchcock and Bernard Herrmann. For Psycho (1960), coined the “godfather of slasher films” by cineasts, Herrmann created a rapidly paced, macabre masterpiece of bright shrieking strings and brass cues bringing the horror/suspense movie theme to its apex. The film’s iconic score has since been replicated and reinvented many [read...] I first saw Lady in a Cage (1964) on cable several years ago. At the time, I didn’t know anything about it, and it turned out to be one of those cool little movie gems you find every once in awhile. I found myself just enjoying the hell out of it every time I rewatched it. Its been one of my favorite cult film thrillers ever since. The opening credits [read...] “If its a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.” – Alfred Hitchcock “Visual imagery and sound are essential elements of film. Thats what makes cinema cinema. Most directors use their camera as recording instruments and don’t really get to the essential element of form.” – Brian DePalma LISTEN TO THE MAIN THEME by Pino [read...] 
Charles Laughton’s only outing as a director The Night of the Hunter (1955) has been recently released on DVD by the good folks at The Criterion Collection. I first saw it on Turner Classic Movies several years ago. Ever since my initial viewing, it’s been one of my most favorite works of classic cinema. What Laughton did was create one of the most stylized, expressionistic pieces of noir cinema ever [read...] |
    
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