2021年3月13日星期六
The Juniper Tree (1990)
Margit and her older sister, Katla, flee their homeland after their mother is killed for practicing witchcraft. Needing a place to stay, Katla casts a spell over a young farmer named Jóhann which makes him fall in love with her.
Imaginative and intelligent re-interpretation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale convinces with beautiful b/w photography and a wonderful performance by Björk.
2021年3月12日星期五
New York
Patrons at the Cafe La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York, November 1965. Photographed by Fred W. McDarrah.
The Mule (2018)
A ninety-year-old horticulturist and Korean War veteran turns drug mule for a Mexican cartel.
Well-made rendition of a true crime story has its suspenseful moments, but is mainly told in an easy-going manner, suitable to the protagonist's and Eastwood's age.
2021年3月11日星期四
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2020)
Released from prison for bringing shame to his country, Kazakh funnyman Borat risks life and limb when he returns to America with his 15-year-old daughter.
Wildly ribald, politically incorrect black comedy, like its much better predecessor, tries to expose American hypocrisy, but probably is not so successful, since today's reality has far outdone any potential satire.
2021年3月10日星期三
The Accountant of Auschwitz (2018)
Seventy years after WWII, Oskar Gröning, one of the last surviving members of the SS, goes on trial as an accessory to the murder of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Relatively short, but remarkable look at a more peripheral perpetrator of the Holocaust which also sheds light on aspects of individual and collective guilt and justice.
2021年3月9日星期二
My Octopus Teacher (2020)
A filmmaker forges an unusual friendship with an octopus living in a South African kelp forest, learning as the animal shares the mysteries of her world
Amazing and sometimes a bit off-kilter account of one man's almost personal relationship with an octopus gives some profound and remarkable insight into the nature of our world, great underwater photography included.
2021年3月8日星期一
2021年3月7日星期日
Double Cross (1941)
When a cop is shot dead during a raid, and another is mistakenly shot for killing him, his fellow officer friend goes undercover on his own to bust up the criminal's operation.
Average undercover crime thriller delivers all the usual goods , but is otherwise not quite remarkable.
Maltin*1/2: "Mild account...nothing unusual."














































