The Movies I Watched in April

Adolescence 2025  7/10

Die Affäre Cum-Ex 2025  6/10

The American Success Company 1979  5/10

Austenland 2013  5/10 

Babygirl 2024  6/10

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022  6/10

BlueBob: Thank You, Judge 1999  6/10

Breadcrumb Trail 2014  7/10 

The Brutalist 2024  7/10

 

Christmas in Connecticut 1945  6/10

Coffy 1973  5/10

Córki dancingu 2015  6/10 

Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer 2025  6/10

Echos aus einem düsteren Reich 1990 6/10

Le feu follet 1963  7/10

 

Glaskupan 2025  6/10 

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 2024  6/10

Head With Hammer 2001  5/10

Heretic 2024  7/10

 

L'important c'est d'aimer 1975  6/10

Jusqu'au 23 juillet 2006 6/10

Kárhozat 1988  7/10

 

Un matin partout dans le monde 2000  5/10

La matriarca 1968  5/10

Mulholland Dr. 2001  10/10

 

München - Geheimnisse einer Stadt 2000  7/10

 

La Palma 2024  5/10 

Pierre and Sonny Jim 2001  6/10

Ready or Not 2019  6/10 

A Real Pain 2024  7/10

 

The Robe 1953  6/10

The Straight Story 1999 !0/10

The Stranger 2020  6/10 1990  6/10

The Two Jakes 1990  6/10

Was heißt hier Ende?  2015  7/10

 

New Stuff: Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

 

Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958)

A self-assured business man murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

A brilliant homage to Film Noir, this classic also anticpates Nouvelle Vague aesthetics and atmosphere, but just as well functions as morality play (plus a great score by Miles Davis).

Halliwell*: "Complex, watchable suspenser with pretensions."

Maltin***1/2: "Filmed by Henri Decaë on the streets of Paris in a bracing style that anticipates the New Wave."

Les Amants (1958)

Bored with her husband, bored with her polo-playing lover, a middle-aged woman walks away with the young man who gave her a lift that day when her car broke down.

Produced with style and taste and a good cast, this movie may have caused an outrage at the time, but the analysis of bourgeois ennui is very much dated by today's standards.

Halliwell**: "A passionate romance which had some censorship difficulties at the time, this rather gloomy film never quite whirls one away as it should, and it doesn't have the eye for detail of Brief Encounter."

Maltin***: "Chic, once-controversial tale...Malle's first international success, and one of Moreau's most important early credits."

Pretty Baby (1978)

A pre-teen girl grows up in a house of prostitution in the Storyville section of New Orleans in 1917.

Inspired by the historic photos of Ernest J. Bellocq this otherwise lightheartedly told movie caused a scandal in its depiction of child pornography and to this day is mostly available only censored.