It is safe to assume that the vast majority of people like movies, but it’s a much smaller group that makes it their entire personality, the raison d’etre and the motivation for going about their daily life. It’s a world that is both exciting since we can explore over a century of global cinema, but…
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973)
When it comes to the subject of iconic French comedy, there are few individuals who are more celebrated than Louis de Funès, whose entire career has been defined by his ability to draw out laughter from the most absurd situations. Known for defining his country’s humour throughout the middle of the 20th century, his work…
Greenfingers (2000)
The art of simplicity is the quality that keeps most genres alive – and they do not get more delightfully simple than Greenfingers, a relatively obscure but still deeply charming British comedy by Joel Hershman, who tells the story of a quiet but sinister felon who is deemed suitable for a new experimental method of…
Topsy-Turvy (1999)
When discussing Mike Leigh, we usually associate him with stories within the contemporary working class, deeply meditative and profoundly compelling social realist narratives that are firm reflections of the director’s origins within the movement popularly known as the “angry young men” of British cinema. However, he was prone to experimenting in many ways, and after…
Sisu (2022)
History has always been ingrained in cinema in some form – whether retellings of the past or merely works set within specific periods, there has always been a strong sense of urgency when it comes to exploring the past to some degree. Historical films take many different forms, but one that I have personally grown…
Tuftland (2017)
There are many different motivations for making a horror film, and perhaps the most common comes in the form of those who aim to create films that reflect the darkest aspects of our psychological state, the nightmares that prevent us from falling asleep and haunt our daily lives – this doesn’t apply to every horror…
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
Here’s an interesting question – who else could make a film that was abducted by the studio, and edited down to the point of being nearly half the length of the original cut, and still have it be one of the most unimpeachable masterpieces of the Golden Age of Hollywood, other than Orson Welles? For…
Wild Life (2014)
The vast majority of us have at some point or another fantasized about leaving our fast-paced urban lives, and instead disappearing into nature, living off the land as far from civilization as we possibly can, under the belief that the natural world can offer us peace and serenity that is sorely lacking in the more…
Rendez-vous (2019)
While it may seem peculiar to even imagine such a project existed, there is a film that exists at the perfect intersection between Richard Linklater’s Before Trilogy and Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, a concept that is almost too absurd to be realistic. However, it is very much extant, as evident by Rendez-vous, the ambitious feature-length…
Paula (2016)
“Loneliness is the source of art” Few individuals knew the crushing nature of loneliness quite like Paula Modersohn-Becker, whose life was filled with a rare kind of isolation, one where she was surrounded by a myriad of people, but where she could never find any sense of belonging, to the point where her premature death…
The Postmodern Pelican 