Directed by: James Mangold
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Patrick
Awards: Oscar for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (2006). Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy, Best Performance by an Actor, Best Performance by an Actress (2006). Grammy for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album (2007).
When I was a teenager and started to [...]
Walk the Line (2005)
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Directed by Ruggero Deodato
Starring Robert Kerman, Carl Gabriel Yorke
I kept going back and forth on whether or not to post this one, but for the horror/gore fans, it just doesn’t get any better/worse. This is the sickest, most disturbing movie you will probably ever see. I can’t even post the poster, because it [...]
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 [...]
A Picnic At Hanging Rock (1975)
Director: Peter Weir
Starring: Rachel Roberts, Vivean Grey
Awards: Best Cinematography (British society of Cinematographers 1976, BAFTA 1977)
I was introduced to this film by the other founder of this site and found it to be a delightful little science fiction/mystery movie. Based on the novel by Joan Lindsay, the film follows a group of schoolgirls who disappear [...]
Black Narcissus (1947)
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Starring: Deborah Kerr
Awards: Academy Award for Cinematography and Art Direction
I got in a little trouble recommending this film to my sister, whose tastes gravitate toward romantic comedies of the Reese Witherspoon variety. This is definitely not one of those films. This is a film with some substance and a very unique [...]
Harold and Maude (1971)
Director: Hal Ashby
Starring: Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon
Awards: Nominated for two Golden Globes
Summary: A young man, obsessed with death, meets an old woman obsessed with life and begins an unlikely love affair is how I always describe it. One of the strangest film romances ever made, it’s also one of the most honest and most [...]
