The first film from director Ridley Scott was also about some very American actors fighting duels while dressed up as historical French guys.
Tag Archives: Drama
SANKOFA (1993)
A movie about the way people live under slavery, about Africans connecting to their roots, and also maybe time travel?
ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984)
A nearly four-hour period gangster movie that represented the culmination of director Sergio Leone’s career. It is also a super weird movie.
THE CROWD (1928)
A surprisingly modern silent film about the terror of not being special.
SCENER UR ETT ÄKTENSAP (1973)
HBO is currently airing an English-language remake of this very intimate take by Ingmar Bergman on the dissolution of a marriage, originally a Swedish TV miniseries that was successfully edited down for an international release.
LADRI DI BICICLETTA (1948)
The prototype of the postwar European realism, it is a very simple movie about the cycle of poverty that worked way better for me than I would have thought.
AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (1957)
A classic romance with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr, who are both very agreeable as usual, but I have to say that something on a basic level did not work for me.
IVAN THE TERRIBLE (1944)
A historical epic filmed in Russia during World War II with an unlimited budget, but Stalin found himself regretting the end result.
PERSONA (1966)
Perhaps the most debated and dissected “art film” of all time, about a woman who refuses to talk and her nurse, stuck alone together in an island cottage, who seem to gradually merge into a single person. Or do they?
THE OUTLAW JOSEY WALES (1976)
As Clint Eastwood’s latest film is released in theaters and on streaming, we revisit another 45 year old Western in which he directed and starred.
Movie Valhalla 