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Haneke’s films are usually quiet ruminations about character interactions followed by explosions of violence and terror. With White Ribbon, he has crafted an almost dreamlike tale, a throwback to an older, slower, more literary cinematic form. Shot in a stunning black and white palate, this is a poetic, elegiac film without the usual pretension or [...]

12. Sep, 2009    •  0 Comments

How does one rate a film that’s terrifically produced, well shot and directed, with great acting, yet it all seems somehow… hollow? The Road, based on the celebrated novel by Cormack McCarthy, is a cerebral, haunting tale of post-apocalyptic misery. However, through no explicit fault of the film, it all seems so straight forward, so [...]

12. Sep, 2009    •  0 Comments

A film that’s in desperate need of a (better) remake, Johnny To-produced Accident manages to completely ruin a terrific start. The opening sequence is downright delightful – a group stages murders for hire, making them seem random occurrences. These “McGyvers of murder” are set loose, with the victim subtly pushed towards his doom using normal [...]

12. Sep, 2009    •  0 Comments

Kabbalah, existential rabbinical analysis and quantum physics, with a Yidisshe theatre opening act – what’s not to love from this latest work of brilliance by the Coen boys? Broadly, this is a film about mystery, about whether there is or isn’t cause for suffering, injustice, bad luck. It’s a film resolutely free of answers yet [...]

06. Sep, 2008    •  1 Comment