Saturday, October 17, 2020
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
Friday, October 16, 2020
Family Romance, LLC (2019)
With a topic as if created for Werner Herzog, this (fictional) story is slyly presented in his unmistakable documentary style with lots of amazing and surprising moments.
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L'Inconnu du lac (2013)
Austere, but intense crime mostly set in a singular location is fascinating for its audacity, although the unnecessarily sexually explicit scenes are a bit off-putting.
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Thursday, October 15, 2020
Cause for Alarm! (1951)
An invalid husband wrongly believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him and outlines that suspicion in a letter, which causes a serious concern when he ends up dying anyway.
Halliwell*: "Minor-league suspenser, watchable but disappointingly handled."
Maltin***: "Simple, effective thriller...Tension builds, and there's a neat plot twist."
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Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Monday, October 12, 2020
Les Amants de Montparnasse (1958)
Maltin**1/2: "Unusual biography...plays up the women in his life but at the same time presents a harshly realistic view of the Parisian art world and its denizens. Philipe is fine as the impoverished, boozing - and romantic - lead."
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Sunday, October 11, 2020
New Stuff: Mourning [A] BLKstar
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Sicilia! (1999)
Superficially an austere and mannered movie very well compels as a mesmerizing and quite adequate adaptation of a great literary work.
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