Renée Jeanne Falconetti gives perhaps the greatest of all movie performances in this legendary silent film that feels like “an historical document from an era where cinema did not exist.”
Tag Archives: Drama
EASY RIDER (1969)
Bikers, the open road, freedom, so many drugs. Who needs any story whatsoever? Well…
THE ASCENT (1977)
An extremely depressing Soviet World War II movie that is also probably a great work of art.
MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY (1935)
I spent most of this classic Best Picture winner checking to see how much time it had left. You may like it more if you are more into shirtless Clark Gable than I am.
THE DEAD (1987)
John Huston’s final film adapts a short story by James Joyce about a party in 1904 Dublin.
RYAN’S DAUGHTER (1970)
Lots of beautiful Irish locations can’t save a movie that is incredibly long for the amount of story it has and includes a series of truly awful performances.
THE QUIET MAN (1952)
John Wayne romances Maureen O’Hara against a backdrop so stereotypically Irish, you might puke.
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
Perhaps the greatest of all “talky dramas,” beloved despite (or because of?) taking place almost entirely in one room.
TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990)
A Magical Realist story of a Black family in Los Angeles that throws out a lot of ideas, and leaves us to our own conclusions.
SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS (1927)
Perhaps the artistic apotheosis of silent movies, just before sound came in and swept them away.
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