Archive for May, 2012
M (1931)
Legendary director Fritz Lang took a gamble when making M, which tells the story of a child murderer in Berlin, as the film has been credited with forming two different genres: the serial killer movie and the police procedural. Lang’s earlier silent films including Metropolis were all worldwide successes, and by the year 1931, the Nazi […]
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Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman 1/2
Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman 2/2
Breathless (1960)
In its opening shots a girlie tabloid slips down to reveal the face of a man, a cigarette dangling on his lips as his eyes suspiciously survey’s the area under his jaunty cocked hat that is obviously too large for his head. He turns and he rubs those lips with the edge of his thumb; and he […]
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Persona (1966)
Ingmar Bergman’s Persona is one of those fascinating films that you keep returning to, trying to uncover more of its mysteries and hoping it reveals more of its secrets. The beginning of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey captured the birth of man. Persona and its experimental beginning is said to have captured the death of […]
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