Our Swedish entry is, unsurprisingly, from Ingmar Bergman, about an old man taking a road trip that also ends up as sort of a trip through his life.
Category Archives: 2022 World Cinema Winter Festival
INSOMNIA (1997)
More a “blanc” than a noir, this a really great thriller in which a big city detective finds himself investigating a murder in a small town north of the Arctic Circle, where the sun is out 24 hours a day and keeps him from sleeping. Is his gradual insanity caused by the lack of sleep, the case, or both?
SERGEANT YORK (1941)
I have some thoughts about our American entry’s take on the intersection and patriotism, and also on the completely ridiculous accents basically everyone in this movie has. A lot of people like it though!
ARCHANGEL (1990)
Canada’s entry is an early work from one of the most idiosyncratic of the internationally known modern directors, Guy Maddin, very loosely inspired by real events, in the style of a very early sound film from circa-1930, for reasons.
VOTING NOW OPEN FOR OUR FIRST GROUP OF WORLD CINEMA WINTER FESTIVAL CONTENDERS
Your votes will determine which contender will advance to the “Medal Round” from our first group of World Winter Cinema Festival contenders.
LA STRADA (1954)
Italy brings a strong representative to our Winter Festival in Fellini’s modern fable of an innocent young woman who ends up on the road with a brutish circus performer.
FUNNY GAMES (1997)
Our entry from Austria is a sadistically violent movie that challenges the viewers as to why they like violent movies in the first place.
DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER (1922)
You might not expect a movie from 1922 to actually work as an action movie with actual suspense and car chases and things, but somehow it does? This is the story of the prototype supervillain.
THE BLUE KITE (1993)
If given the choice, this would not be the entry of the Chinese government, which immediately banned this depiction of one family beaten down by two horrible decades of Chinese history.
THE MOVIE VALHALLA WORLD CINEMA WINTER FESTIVAL STARTS FEBRUARY 2
The Movie Valhalla World Winter Festival will feature,. but complete coincidence, movies from the best countries around the world at winter sports, and you can vote for Gold, Silver, and Bronze, and by total coincidence there is also a winter sports event going on at the same time.
Movie Valhalla 