Archive for June, 2012
Contempt (1963)
Jean-Luc Godard’s poetic masterpiece Contempt is a like a haunting three-act Greek tragedy, in which a French playwright gets hired by a seedy and corrupt American film producer to rewrite a movie script of a direct to film adaptation of The Odyssey, which is being directed by the legendary German director Fritz Lang (playing himself). When the producer is told […]
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One of the great artistic Science Fiction films
Run by a madman
Stalker (1979)
“What was it? A meteorite? A visit of inhabitants of the cosmic abyss? One way or another our small country has seen the birth of a miracle-the Zone. We immediately sent troops there. They haven’t come back. Then we surrounded the Zone with police cordons. Perhaps, that was the right thing to do. Though, I don’t […]
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Cries and Whispers (1972)
Cries and Whispers is Ingmar Bergman’s most painful and emotionally excruciating film, involving three sisters who have nothing but contempt, bitterness, and disgust with one another and for themselves. The bleak story takes place in a lavish mansion in the late 1800’s, as it depicts the final days of one of the three sisters who is bed-ridden […]
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