Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel
Starring: Moritz Bleibtreu
Based on the Stanford Prison Experiment and the book Black Box by Mario Giordano, Das Experiment follows the events of an experiment where 19 men are divided into prisoners and guards and tasked with role playing their mock occupations for two weeks.
At first the 19 strangers joke about their roles, [...]
Das Experiment (2001)
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 [...]
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
Director: L.Q. Jones
Starring: Don Johnson, Jason Robards
Awards: Won Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, nominated Nebula for Best Dramatic Writing
Summary: What does Star Trek, Miami Vice, nuclear war, and man’s best friend all have in common? Well, not much really except for a nifty little movie called A Boy and His Dog. Set in the year [...]
Cache (2005)
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Daniel Auteuil
Awards: European Film Awards: Best European Film, Director, Actor, Editor (2005)
As a lover of film scores, Cache, represented an interesting selection for me, as it has no score. Geniously shot in high-definition, the medium provides a mechanism of storytelling, as the audience is unwittingly and repeatedly placed in [...]
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Klaus Kinski
“People think we had a love-hate relationship. Well, I did not love him, nor did I hate him. We had mutual respect for each other, even as we both planned each other’s murder.”
–Werner Herzog
Aguirre: Wrath of God is one of German director, Werner Herzog’s, most critically acclaimed films following the harrowing [...]
