In this French thriller from Francois Ozon, Alice (Natacha Regnier) and her boyfriend Luc (Jeremie Renier) find themselves in a terrifying trap when they sneak out into the woods to cover up a crime they committed together, and then cannot find their way back out. Compared to THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT and to SHALLOW GRAVE, the tale is creepy and twisting, involving rape, murder, burying dead bodies, and perhaps the worst of all: getting lost in the woods.
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The second film in Terence Davies?s autobiographical series (TRILOGY, THE LONG DAY CLOSES) is an impressionistic view of a working-class family in 1940s and 1950s Liverpool, based on Davies?s own family. The first part, DISTANT VOICES, opens with grown siblings Eileen (Angela Walsh), Maisie (Lorraine Ashbourne) and Tony (Dean Williams), and their mother (Freda Dowie) arranged in mourning clothes before the photograph of their smiling father (Pete Postlethwaite). Soon after, the family poses in a
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The series tells of the professional and personal lives of a group of people who work for a law firm in America. Ally, as the central character adds to the events with her sometimes vivid daydreams.
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Bobcat Goldthwait, the frantic, shrieking comedian who gained fame in several POLICE ACADEMY films, follows up his debut feature as a writer-director–1992′s SHAKES THE CLOWN–with SLEEPING DOGS LIE, a surprisingly tender romantic black comedy. Melinda Page Hamilton gives a terrific lead performance as Amy, a young woman with a deep, dark secret, something very stupid that she did in college. Eight years later, as her relationship with John (Bryce Johnson) intensifies, she considers telling him
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, already the director of almost twenty films by the age of twenty-nine, paid homage to his cinematic hero, Douglas Sirk, with this updated version of Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows. Lonely widow Emmi Kurowsky (Brigitte Mira) meets Arab worker Ali (El Hedi ben Salem) in a bar during a rainstorm. They fall in love – to their own surprise – and to the shock of family, colleagues, and drinking buddies. Fassbinder expertly uses the emotional power of the me
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To set a good example to her son, single mother Annie agrees to serve on a jury in the trial of a powerful mobster. But when the selection procedure takes place she is evaluated by the judge, the attorneys and a member of the Mafia.
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CITIZEN KANE is Orson Welles’s greatest achievement and a landmark of cinema history. The story charts the rise and fall of a newspaper publisher whose wealth and power ultimately isolates him in his castlelike refuge. The film’s protagonist, Charles Foster Kane, was based on a composite of Howard Hughes and William Randolph Hearst so much so that Hearst tried to have the film suppressed. Every aspect of the production marked an advance in film language: the deep focus and deeply shadowed cinema
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Comstock and Rosemary are a typical 1930s couple with modern ideas. He decides to leave his middle class job to become a poet while she works hard to keep her career and their unusual relationship on track. Comstock, however, is desperate to escape that symbol of middle class respectability – the Aspidistra. The story is based on a novel by George Orwell.
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SPARTACUS, based on Howard Fast’s popular novel, is Stanley Kubrick’s glorious masterpiece about a slave uprising in Rome in 70 BC. Kirk Douglas, who also served as executive producer, stars as the title character, a man born of a slave woman and a slave master who has known nothing but chains for his entire life. After being forced to put on a gladiator show–that almost leads to his death–for wealthy Romans (including a marvellously conniving Laurence Olivier as the power-hungry Crassus), Spa
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Hiroyuki Sanada, who played Ujio in Edward Zwick’s Hollywood epic THE LAST SAMURAI, stars in a different kind of samurai film in Yoji Yamada’s poignant drama THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI. Sanada plays the title character (Seibei Iguchi), who gets his nickname because he is a lowly worker who chooses to go home to his family every night after work instead of going out with his colleagues. Seibei’s wife has recently died, so he is raising his two daughters alone, as well as caring for his ageing mother. H
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