Reviews

It's a funny thing - I usually head towards World Cinema for a refreshing break from big-budget blockbusters that offer little other than explosive and violent thrills, but sometimes a foreign director embraces the way it's done in Hollywood and I find myself feeling like I'm visiting Soel but eatin... ...

It's not a case of abject failure - the movie is fine - it's just that a film of this size and scope obviously aims at being the big Best Picture Oscar winner at the end of the year, and At Play in the Fields of the Lord ended up facing the ignominy of not recieving a single nomination. ...

You'd never guess Roary could be at the place he is at the end of the film when the movie starts - a funny counterpoint to one of the last lines of the movie, delivered by Anne - about people always staying who they are. ...

It all came down to this one movie (Brosnan's next three dipped in quality as each came along) as Bond stepped into the post-Cold War period and an era where the character would face changing attitudes, popular culture mores, competing action/adventure movies, changes in the way we watch movies and ... ...

The film feels very weighty and heavy - anybody who watches any mainstream drama or popular, contemporary films would find a great deal of contrast when comparing them to Rocco and His Brothers, where every scene feels like it could be analysed and talked about - these people are short on small talk... ...

Despite all of that, Leila's Brothers is a film that can really speak to all of us in what seems an uninhibited way, and once in tune with it's ebbs and flows I really connected to it's characters in a way that had me feeling I was a part of Leila's family. ...

I've read that writing about the film is considered the equivalent of "climbing Mount Everest" when it comes to film reviewing and composing movie literature - so that process looks a lot more arduous. ...

Celine Song's film is so well balanced that every character feels fleshed out, so that I really feel Hae Sung's loneliness, Nora's assured dependability offset a little by the magnetic attraction she feels for Hae Sung, and Arthur's trust which still betrays a pang of jealousy and hurt. ...

Other performers, such as Neville Brand, were very much of the time and big in film noir, westerns and the like - Brand plays heavy Gunner - Joe Castro's hatchet man, and a big worry for the heavyset Johnny who at first doesn't look like a capable man in a fight (he'll fix that impression as the fil... ...

Mifune appeared in 16 Kurosawa films, starting with Drunken Angel in 1948 (alongside Shimura.) The two actors appeared together in 53 films over the years, including 15 Akira Kurosawa films. ...