4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 28, 2016

In the second leg of Ingmar Bergman’s Faith Trilogy he gets right to the core of all matters of faith. He takes an up close and personal look at a man of the cloth named Tomas (Gunnar Bjorstrand), who shepherds a small congregation in a rural Swedish town. Such is...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 28, 2016

In the second leg of Ingmar Bergman’s Faith Trilogy, he gets right to the core of all matters of faith. He takes an up close and personal look at a man of the cloth named Tomas (Gunnar Bjorstrand), who shepherds a small congregation in a rural Swedish town. Such is...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 26, 2016

Strike deserves a place alongside Battleship Potemkin and Man with a Movie Camera in a trifecta of films from the Soviet Union that while reflecting political agendas most certainly influenced film as a medium. Honestly, it’s a film that’s hard to pin down exactly. It’s the debut o   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 26, 2016

Strike deserves a place alongside Battleship Potemkin and Man with a Movie Camera in a trifecta of films from the Soviet Union that while reflecting political agendas most certainly influenced film as a medium. Honestly, it’s a film that’s hard to pin down exactly. It’s the debut o   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 23, 2016

Jacques Tati’s film seems like the perfect mode of expression in the post-war world. It’s boosted by lively, accordion-laden carnival music, with wry commentary from the old lady, and a bicycling postman, the mustachioed Francois (Tati himself). Use of sound becomes so integral to the co   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 23, 2016

Jacques Tati’s film seems like the perfect mode of expression in the post-war world. It’s boosted by lively, accordion-laden carnival music, with wry commentary from the old lady, and a bicycling postman, the mustachioed Francois (Tati himself). Use of sound becomes so integral to the co   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 21, 2016

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl. How do you deal with such a film coming from modern sensibilities of race and romance? It actually turned out to be easier than you would think, but not altogether straightforward. D.W. Griffith is no stranger to racial controversy in his films....   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 21, 2016

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl. How do you deal with such a film coming from modern sensibilities of race and romance? It actually turned out to be easier than you would think, but not altogether straightforward. D.W. Griffith is no stranger to racial controversy in his films....   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 19, 2016

Watching a film like Man with a Movie Camera makes me disappointed that there are not more films like it, because what it does, along with the most historically significant films of our times, is transport us to a different time and place we can never fully know or comprehend. Dziga...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 19, 2016

Watching a film like Man with a Movie Camera makes me disappointed that there are not more films like it, because what it does, along with the most historically significant films of our times, is transport us to a different time and place we can never fully know or comprehend. Dziga...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 18, 2016

I had never seen anything from Bernardo Bertolucci, but a few of his other films that came to mind were Last Tango in Paris and 1900. I was expecting some mix of The Godfather and Le Samourai set in Italy during the 1930s. In all honesty, those were the meager...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 18, 2016

I had never seen anything from Bernardo Bertolucci, but a few of his other films that came to mind were Last Tango in Paris and 1900. I was expecting some mix of The Godfather and Le Samourai set in Italy during the 1930s. In all honesty, those were the meager...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 16, 2016

Vittorio De Sica is at the forefront of Europe’s most accessible filmmakers of the 20th century and that’s because the stories he crafts are heartfelt, moving, and also enter comical territory with ease. Sunflower pairs him once again with two of Italy’s Titans Sophia Loren and Mar   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 16, 2016

Vittorio De Sica is at the forefront of Europe’s most accessible filmmakers of the 20th century and that’s because the stories he crafts are heart-felt, moving, and also enter comical territory with ease. Sunflower pairs him once again with two of Italy’s titans Sophia Loren and Ma   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 14, 2016

The Blue Angel is the name of a nightclub and it turns out to be a very fateful nightclub indeed. It just takes us a while to figure out why. Although Josef Von Sternberg’s film is known, rightly so, for making a star out of Marlene Dietrich — in the...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 14, 2016

The Blue Angel is the name of a nightclub and it turns out to be a very fateful nightclub indeed. It just takes us a while to figure out why. Although Josef Von Sternberg’s film is known, rightly so, for making a star out of Marlene Dietrich — in the...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 12, 2016

Fritz Lang’s archetypal sci-fi epic is steeped in politics, religion, and humanity, but above all it is a true cinematic experience. It is visually arresting, and it still causes us to marvel with set-pieces that  remain extraordinary. How did Fritz Lang piece together such a gargantuan accomp   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 12, 2016

Fritz Lang’s archetypal sci-fi epic is steeped in politics, religion, and humanity, but above all, it is a true cinematic experience. It is visually arresting, and it still causes us to marvel with set-pieces that remain extraordinary. How did Fritz Lang piece together such a gargantuan accomp   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 10, 2016

There is a scene in the film where a group of friends are sitting around the dinner table in the Notting Hill district of London, and they are having a friendly after dinner competition to decide whose life is the most hopeless. The winner gets the last delectable piece of fudge....   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on April 10, 2016

There is a scene in the film where a group of friends is sitting around the dinner table in the Notting Hill district of London, and they are having a friendly after dinner competition to decide whose life is the most hopeless. The winner gets the last delectable piece of fudge....   read more