Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
Starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams, Frederic Forrest, Harrison Ford
Revisited this one recently to show it to my wife who has a penchant for mystery thriller movies. I find this to be Coppola’s third best film after Apocalypse and The Godfather, its use of sound design editing music, [...]
The Conversation (1974)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Directed by David Lynch
Starring Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern
Today I was reading about a man who designed his coffin to look like a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer can, and naturally, I though of Blue Velvet. Widely claimed to be Lynch’s best film, Velvet was also one of his more controversial given his [...]
Les Diaboliques (1954)
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot
What attracted me to this movie was a review I read somewhere that called Les Diaboliques, “the greatest Alfred Hitchcock movie never made,” and wow, does it feel like one. Rumors abound that Hitchcock lost out on the right to the novel by a matter of hours. [...]
Insomnia (1997)
Director: Erik Skjoldbjærg
Starring: Stellan Skarsgard
Having an obsession with film noir out of college, I immediately gravitated toward Insomina, when I heard the director’s aim was to turn the genre on its head. It was this visual style, using pervasive light in a disorienting and ubitiquitous manner, combined with the powerful performance by Stellan Skarsgard [...]
Rebecca (1940)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Lawrence Olivier, Joan Fontaine
Awards: Academy Award (Best Picture)
As an avid Hitchcock fan, I found Rebecca an enthralling mystery film ahead of its time. Edited in camera, the film is technically sound and expertly plotted with a solid narrative and plenty of unexpected twists and turns. This was the same studio to produce [...]
The Third Man (1949)
Director: Carol Reed
Starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten
Awards: BFI Best British Film of the 20th Century (1999)
Quite simply, my favorite film. Out of work, novel writer Holly Martins arrives in war-torn Vienna looking for a job, only to find his only friend, Henry Lime dead. Upon investigating further, Holly comes to find that his friend was [...]
