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 [...]
Rebecca (1940)
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
