Category: Melodrama
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Transit (2018)
Transit (2018) is the third film I’ve watched of German director Christian Petzold and at this point, I have to say that I’m a fan. There is something very direct about Petzold’s filmmaking style, it is not too showy or over-the-top; there’s a degree of elegance, though for some it might also be close to… Read.
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Written On The Wind (1956)
Quite a contrast to grow up with Robert Stack as an older guy in a trenchcoat walking out of the night to host Unsolved Mysteries on TV and to see him young as the alcoholic, suicidal son of a Texas oil baron in Written On The Wind (1956) with the most intense eyes ever. Directed… Read.
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All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Seeing the doco series, A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese through American Movies, on ABC when I was a teenager was the kind of uber-text that sets you up with a list of references, of movies to one day track down and understand why they meant so much to Marty and his enthusiastic testifying. In… Read.
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Another Year (2010)
Revisiting Mike Leigh’s film, Another Year (2010), there are images of the middle-aged couple Tom (Jim Broadbent), a geologist, and Gerri (Ruth Sheen), a counsellor, that are so appealing and heart-warming to me. Gerri cuddling Tom while he prepares dinner or both of them sitting underneath a tarp with a cup of tea while it… Read.
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Wuthering Heights (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939) is another classic film on the list of movies from Danny Peary’s Cult Movies 2 book that I had not seen before. I read Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights in high school and always had a fondness for it, maybe it was the gothic vibes and the element of revenge, more than likely… Read.
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