The Middle Ages – what other historical period excites our imagination as much? This is deemed to be a period of great uncertainty, religious mania, chivalry, and omnipresent death, a period of darkness and a period of sporadic light, depending what century you consider. Many film directors fell under its haunting spell, too, and some…
Tag: Ingmar Bergman
Film Scene Spotlight: Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata
As seen from a number of his other films, Ingmar Bergman was very interested in the relationship between two women (one dominant and another submissive), but, in Autumn Sonata, he presented something truly complex and sublime.
5 Foreign Films That Should Have Been Nominated for an Academy Award (Part I)
The Academy Awards have always had a very difficult relationship with experimental and artistic films or with films d‘auteur, but, nevertheless, below are five films that should have received at least a Best Foreign Film nomination by the Academy (if not a win) and were unjustly ignored. I am listing only the films that were…
10 Great Films Based on Plays (Part I)
Did you know that classic film Casablanca [1942] was based on an unproduced play titled Everybody Comes to Rick’s? by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison?; or that film Moonlight [2016] was based on another unproduced play titled Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue by Tarell Alvin McCraney? Many a great film first originated in a play, and…
20 “Must-See” Philosophical Films
In no particular order: 1) Rashomon (1950) 2) La Gran Belleza (2013) 3) Stalker (1979) 4) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) 5) Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
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