A highly controversial drama about the Holocaust, trauma, and sadomasochism, among other things. It’s probably better than that combination makes it sound.
Category Archives: Drama
GERTRUD (1964)
A story about one woman’s refusal to compromise, by a director who spent his career refusing to compromise. It is also entirely long shots of people talking in rooms.
GREED (1924)
A movie that has gone down in cinema legend as a partially lost masterpiece, which I today found more interesting than entertaining.
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS (1966)
A very realistic movie about guerrilla warfare that basically invented a new style of movie-making.
CHARIOTS OF FIRE (1981)
Maybe the most British sports movie ever made, it uses track & field in the 1920s to deal with complicated issues of personal conviction, racism, and classism, and also some guys run on a beach.
DOWNHILL RACER (1969)
Our Summer Games Virtual Film Festival continues with Robert Redford starring as a headstrong ski racer in this drama about what it really takes to train for the Olympics.
JIM THORPE: ALL-AMERICAN (1951)
Our Summer Games Film Festival continues with this biopic of a great Native-American athlete of the early 20th Century that doesn’t quite succeed at making any sense out of a messy human life.
JOURNEY TO ITALY (1954)
Italian Robert Rossellini directs his Swedish wife, Ingrid Bergman, in English in this surprisingly modern take on a marriage which, finding itself in unfamiliar territory, immediately disintegrates.
L’AVVENTURA (1960)
A landmark of “modernist” cinema, but don’t expect it to, y’know, have a story or make any attempt to explain anything.
THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915)
It’s the very first blockbuster, but unfortunately I can’t emphasize enough how racist it is. However racist you think it is, it is way more racist than that.
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