Archive for July, 2013
Le Boucher (1970)
She is a strong and sophisticated school mistress from Paris, he is a unusured small town butcher, both of their everyday lives obscure great loneliness, and their sexual tension is peculiarly skewed. They should never have met each other, and yet fate has brought together these two completely different individuals. When they do start to spend time together, […]
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Red Desert came out in the year 1964, which was almost twenty years since the end of the war, by which that time Italy had recovered from the devastation that was caused by that catastrophic event, and was on its way towards a modern prosperity; the years stretching from 1954 to 1964 were those of the […]
ContinueBlack Orpheus (1959)
Before Marcel Camus’s Black Orpheus showed up on American and European screens in 1959, what would later be known to many as the ‘art film’ came in only a few different ways: Bergmanesque existentialism, Japanese samurai epics, Italian neorealism, and the French New Wave. No one was ready for the emergence of this Brazilian film which suddenly […]
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Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds is looked at as one of the greatest of all postwar East-Central European films, and also the most vital work of the Polish School, completing what many believe to be Wajda’s war trilogy, which followed A Generation and Kanal. It’s extraordinary how much controversy carried Ashes and Diamonds within Poland […]
ContinueClosely Watched Trains (1966)
During the late 1960’s a sudden wave of Czechoslovakian films suddenly burst into the West, catching many film-goers off-guard. Most of the films were very small in scale, and its stories focused mostly on ordinary, regular people, who were regarded with a tender and sweet human affection. These type of films were completely different in […]
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