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Amour Writer-director:Michael Haneke Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert Amour (meaning ‘Love’) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. The opening scene shows firemen breaking down...
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Cosmopolis Director: David Cronenberg Writers: David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo Stars: Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon, Paul Giamatti David Cronenberg is the greatest filmmaker in the English-speaking world, who has been continuing to make provocative and deeply thoughtful films when other claimants to the title like David Lynch, Atom Egoyan and Quentin...
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Steven Spielberg’s penchant for historico-political films began with The Color Purple (1985), for which he was panned both by the American black community and the critics. He grew up, in a big way, since this early attempt, when he tried an epic scale recreation of the Auschwitz, its background...
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Certified Copy Director: Abbas Kiarostami Writers: Abbas Kiarostami, Caroline Eliacheff Stars: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière Abbas Kiarostami is the best known of Iranian filmmakers and it will not be out of place to assert that he put Iranian cinema on the world map. Yet, a careful viewing...
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The Long Goodbye Director:Robert Altman Writers: Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler Stars: Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973) – based on a novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler – belongs to a genre called the ‘hard-boiled detective story’, which may be regarded as...
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The Dark Knight Rises Director:Christopher Nolan Writers: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Nolan Stars: Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy I must admit that among America’s superheroes, I have a special fondness for the Batman. This is not only because he does not sport America’s colors as Superman and...
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Every film festival has their favorite filmmakers; Hitchcock is one of Cannes’. His Psycho was screened in the sixth year since the inauguration of the Cannes Classic section, in 2010. This was followed by The Ring in 2012, The Birds and Vertigo in 2013, and Jamaica Inn in 2014. The restored version...
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The Cabin in the Woods Director:Drew Goddard Writers: Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard Stars: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison Although The Cabin in the Woods is nominally a teen horror film in the mold of Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981), it not only uses another kind of narrative – perhaps consciously...
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The new generation of Naga enthusiasts is picking up their lessons of filmmaking in this environment and have leapt into this new venture in quite a big way....
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A clock with the seconds-needle soundlessly completes a circle and a half around it, setting the opening tone for Chaplin’s satirical “story of industry, of individual enterprise – humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness”: Modern Times, inhabited in the Depression years by the famished populace, jobless or underpaid...
Amour Writer-director:Michael Haneke Stars: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert Amour (meaning ‘Love’) stars Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva and Isabelle Huppert. The narrative focuses on an elderly couple, Anne and Georges, who are retired music teachers with a daughter who lives abroad. The opening scene shows firemen breaking down...
Cosmopolis Director: David Cronenberg Writers: David Cronenberg, Don DeLillo Stars: Robert Pattinson, Sarah Gadon, Paul Giamatti David Cronenberg is the greatest filmmaker in the English-speaking world, who has been continuing to make provocative and deeply thoughtful films when other claimants to the title like David Lynch, Atom Egoyan and Quentin...
Steven Spielberg’s penchant for historico-political films began with The Color Purple (1985), for which he was panned both by the American black community and the critics. He grew up, in a big way, since this early attempt, when he tried an epic scale recreation of the Auschwitz, its background...
Certified Copy Director: Abbas Kiarostami Writers: Abbas Kiarostami, Caroline Eliacheff Stars: Juliette Binoche, William Shimell, Jean-Claude Carrière Abbas Kiarostami is the best known of Iranian filmmakers and it will not be out of place to assert that he put Iranian cinema on the world map. Yet, a careful viewing...
The Long Goodbye Director:Robert Altman Writers: Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler Stars: Elliott Gould, Nina van Pallandt, Sterling Hayden Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye (1973) – based on a novel of the same name by Raymond Chandler – belongs to a genre called the ‘hard-boiled detective story’, which may be regarded as...
The Dark Knight Rises Director:Christopher Nolan Writers: Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, Christopher Nolan Stars: Christian Bale, Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy I must admit that among America’s superheroes, I have a special fondness for the Batman. This is not only because he does not sport America’s colors as Superman and...
Every film festival has their favorite filmmakers; Hitchcock is one of Cannes’. His Psycho was screened in the sixth year since the inauguration of the Cannes Classic section, in 2010. This was followed by The Ring in 2012, The Birds and Vertigo in 2013, and Jamaica Inn in 2014. The restored version...
The Cabin in the Woods Director:Drew Goddard Writers: Joss Whedon, Drew Goddard Stars: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison Although The Cabin in the Woods is nominally a teen horror film in the mold of Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981), it not only uses another kind of narrative – perhaps consciously...
The new generation of Naga enthusiasts is picking up their lessons of filmmaking in this environment and have leapt into this new venture in quite a big way....
A clock with the seconds-needle soundlessly completes a circle and a half around it, setting the opening tone for Chaplin’s satirical “story of industry, of individual enterprise – humanity crusading in the pursuit of happiness”: Modern Times, inhabited in the Depression years by the famished populace, jobless or underpaid...
