Joel and Ethan Cohen’s Inside Llewyn Davis tells the story of a folk singer entering the strange early years of … More
Tag: Drama
#393 Through A Glass Darkly (Såsom i en spegel) (1961)
Cracks in a family gathering emerge over the span of twenty-four hours in Bergman’s Through A Glass Darkly. A family … More
#373 Breathless (À bout de Souffle)(1960)
Breathless is a stunning film. Shot from the hip on a tiny budget and hardly planned prior to the day’s … More
My Name is Jonah (2014)
Tonight I watched the brilliant, funny, heartbreaking, beautiful, and captivating documentary My Name Is Jonah. This film is not on … More
#14 Nanook of the North (1922)
Robert J. Flaherty, the “father of the documentary,” created the first true documentary with his Nanook of the North – a film … More
#868 My Own Private Idaho (1991)
In My Own Private Idaho, a young Gus Van Sant explores existence and geographic identity through the lens of a … More
#599 Amarcord (1973)
Amarcord is one of Fellini’s later films and is a semiautobiographical sendoff to the small Italian community of his youth. The … More
#723 The Big Chill (1983)
The Big Chill is Lawrence Kasdan’s sharply anti-Hollywood ensemble piece that takes a bunch of 1960s baby boomer friends, shoots … More
#27 The Phantom Of The Opera (1925)
A rickety film mired in legal, funding, and central errors, The Phantom of the Opera is best known for “enshrin(ing) … More
#677 All That Jazz (1979)
All That Jazz is a stream-of-consciousness commercial-art-film semi-biopic of the life and career of its Broadway-famous writer and director, Bob … More