Sicilian filmmaker Salvo Cuccia has made this documentary, which is partly the filmmaker’s own story about his experience of not seeing Frank Zappa the one time he played Sicily, and recent footage of the Zappa family visiting the island to talk about their family heritage. Zappa was of course famously of Sicilian descent. It’s interspersed … Continue reading Summer 82: When Zappa Came to Sicily – Blu-Ray Review
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
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