Shoot the Glass

Three weeks ago, I had no idea who Henri-Georges Clouzot was. Now, I’ve seen two of his movies and both are masterpieces. He made this right after Le Salaire de la Peur (read my review), yet it’s an entirely different kind of movie.
Unlike Le Salaire de la Peur, very little time is spent setting up [...]

Wow, I am still kind of reeling from the experience of watching this movie. It was extraordinary, and quite unlike any other other movie I’ve seen.
It opens in a South American town, a filthy place, children begging for money and poverty everywhere. It’s hot, and dirty. A lot of time is spent setting the scene, [...]

It’s not often we get to see “the other side” of a war. Clint Eastwood did it recently with his Letters from Iwo Jima, but it’s rare. Usually, if we are shown the German or Japanese side of WWII, they are portrayed as villains. What Hollywood has failed to grasp is that not every German [...]

Not having seen this has, for many years, been my biggest embarrassment. Truth is, I have seen bits of it, but the universe seems to conspire against me, always coming up with some devilish scheme to stop me completing it. Therefore, I was delighted when I finally made time to see it, and managed to [...]

There are many things to marvel at and be impressed with when it comes to this movie. First of all, it’s almost impossible to believe that this movie was made in 1931. Made only a few years after the end of the silent film era, Fritz Lang uses all aspects of sound (effects, dialogue, silence, [...]