Perhaps the artistic apotheosis of silent movies, just before sound came in and swept them away.
Category Archives: Drama
THE CONNECTION (1961)
This is sort of the closest thing you’ll find a movie by and for the Beat Movement, an interesting exercise but I’m not sure it actually works as a film.
BELLE DE JOUR (1967)
Luis Buñuel deftly portrays the inner sexual fantasy life of a beautiful Parisian woman in a way that the movies really hadn’t before.
CHUNGKING EXPRESS (1994)
This romance/crime/comedy/drama/other remains, a quarter century later, my definitive personal image of Hong Kong.
AMERICA AMERICA (1963)
An extremely personal story of one young man’s journey from rural Turkey to America.
THE BLOOD OF JESUS (1941)
This is a movie as “outsider art,” an unfiltered detour into a religious mind without an insincere bone in its body.
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1930)
Perhaps the ultimate anti-War movie, its battle scenes represented a quantum leap for movies. Some of the smaller things may not hold up, but the message does.
TAXI DRIVER (1976)
Scorsese’s portrait of the classic lone wolf white male remains highly acclaimed, but I wonder if it hasn’t done more harm than good.
A PLACE IN THE SUN (1951)
A somewhat dated melodrama about people who are deeply unhappy despite being extremely pretty. One of them falls out of a rowboat.
AGUIRRE, DER ZORN GOTTES (1972)
A descent into madness with conquistadors searching fruitlessly for El Dorado, that Werner Herzog dragged a full movie crew down the Amazon to shoot.
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