As the name indicates, the film is about the 1940 retreat by the British and Allied armies from the beaches of France. The war epic was directed by Christopher Nolan, and marks the first time he has made a British film since the early years of his career. For an epic, it’s pretty short (106 … Continue reading Dunkirk (2017) – – Blu-Ray Review
Alice in the Cities is the film where Wim Wenders found his cinematic voice. It’s a road movie, which is what he’s most famous for making, and the first part of an official trilogy that also includes The Wrong Move and Kings of the Road. It came after Wenders made a poor adaptation of The … Continue reading Alice in the Cities – Blu-Ray Review
“Melville is the Godard I haven't grown out of” - Quentin Tarantino Jean-Pierre Melville (originally Grumbach, but changed because he was a big Herman Melville fan) was really the director who in his own way made the French New Wave possible. He preceded it, of course, having served in the Resistance and then started making … Continue reading Melville: The Essential Collection – Blu-Ray Review
There’s a famous quote from the Arthur Penn film Night Moves: “I saw a Rohmer film once, it was kind of like watching paint dry.” There’s a lot of truth in that. Rohmer was one of the French New Wave filmmakers. He started very late, one of the last to contribute. A deeply conservative Roman … Continue reading The Éric Rohmer Collection – Blu-Ray Review
Monterey Pop was a D.A. Pennebaker documentary, made just after Don’t Look Back. It was the first major film made about a pop festival. THE event was most famous for being the breakthrough moment for Jimi Hendrix, who had just returned from the UK, ad Janis Joplin, who had recently arrived from Texas. The Who … Continue reading Monterey Pop – Blu-Ray Review
