Harold (Bud Cort) is young, privileged, and obsessed with death. He frequents funerals of people he doesn’t know, and stages mock suicides to his mother’s great annoyance. He has no friends. At a funeral he meets 79-year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon), and the two strike up an unlikely friendship. Maude, unlike Harold, is full of life, [...]
In 8½, which is an autobiographical film of Fellini’s, we meet Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a film director. Guido can’t find any inspiration for his upcoming movie, and his life is spiralling out of control. He can’t get a moment’s peace, as he keeps getting accosted from all sides: actors want to know what the [...]
Du Rififi Chez les Hommes (1955, Jules Dassin)
Oooh, fun, another heist movie. I do so love a good heist movie. This reminded me a lot of another heist movie I saw recently: The Killing (read my review). It has some similar elements, and I enjoyed them both immensely.
Here, we get to meet Tony le [...]
Casino (1995, Martin Scorsese)
Casino is another mafia movie from Martin Scorsese, and I thought it was inferior to Goodfellas in every possible way. Maybe I’ve just seen too many similar (and better) movies, but I was just not impressed with this at all.
We get to follow Ace (Robert De Niro) and Nicky (Joe Pesci), [...]
La Haine (1995, Mathieu Kassovitz)
Paris, France. The suburbs. A young man called Abdel is the victim of police brutality, and is hospitalised. Riots. Vinz (Vincent Cassel) finds a gun lost by a policeman during the riots, and wants to fight back. He vows to kill a police if Abdel dies in the hospital, as [...]