Shoot the Glass

This film is set three years after the end of WWII. It is a fictionalised account of the trials that took place in Nuremberg after the end of the war. Which is to say, there were trials in Nuremberg, but the characters in this one are fictional. At this time, most of the important Nazi [...]

Before this, I had only seen two movies by Akira Kurosawa: Rashômon and Seven Samurai. And even though I found the former to be pretty standard (especially having seen the same technique used many times since) and the latter to be drawn-out and rather dull, I was impressed by both. There’s no denying Kurosawa had [...]

The Apartment won a whole slew of Oscars in 1961, not least of which was the Best Picture gong. I had never seen it and didn’t really know what to expect. I have enjoyed many of Wilder’s movies before (both Stalag 17 and Sunset Blvd. are among my favourites), but he always manages to surprise [...]

I think it’s only fair that I start this review by telling you the conditions under which I saw it. It was day three of Ebertfest 2007, in the packed Virginia theatre, with 1,500 other film fans. It was evening and we had been in the theatre all day. It was hot — stifling, actually, [...]

What struck me straight away was how similar this was, in many ways, to one of my favourite movies — Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. This was made two years prior to Butch, and I would feel certain saying that George Roy Hill took some inspiration from Penn.
That brings me to one problem I [...]