Shoot the Glass

I first tried to watch this movie a few years ago. I found it dull and complicated, and I could never get into it. Being from Sweden, I’ve been force-fed some Bergman in my youth, and I never could appreciate him. But, in the last few years, I’ve caught up with some of his movies, [...]

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 wasn’t hard to tell that this was another picture by Vittorio De Sica, as it bears a striking resemblance to his other great, Ladri di Biciclette (which I reviewed here only a few weeks ago).
The story is similarly simple; it tells of an older man (the titular character, played by Carlo Battisti, not a [...]

Yet another Kurosawa, and I’m starting to truly appreciate the man now. Ran, of course, is an adaptation of sorts of one of William Shakespeare’s finest plays, King Lear. It tells of an old warlord who decides to relinquish control of his kingdom and divide it among his three sons (in King Lear, they are [...]

Old science fiction movies can be iffy. They are often overrun by cheesy special effects, and the acting can come across as (by today’s standards, anyway) awfully hammy.
In those regards, I found this to be wholly refreshing. It’s set during the cold war paranoia in America, and tells the story of an alien called Klaatu [...]