Man With A Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)

Dziga Vertov, after watching his incredible Man With A Movie Camera, seems to be somebody who I need to look into more. I’d read about MWAMC a while back and had always had the mental note in the back of my head to see it. The film is silent but modern versions of it have […]

M (Lang, 1931)

Fritz Lang is another director long of intrigue for me, and I finally got around to seeing M last night. What a terrific movie! I was glued to it. I must mention that I was really taken aback by how stylized M is. Perhaps due to my limited scope of 1930’s filmmaking, or maybe still […]

WALL*E (2008)

I will start by letting you all know how excited I was for this movie. As a devoted PIXAR fan, this looked like it would be their most wondrous success. I watched the amazing trailer many times. I had always loved PIXAR in the form of the Toy Story movies, Monsters, Inc., and the rest […]

PERSONA – Bergman (1966)

This is what it feels like to uncover an artist who has a deep impact on your life. I wish it had been earlier, but ideas are timeless, and I am slowly discovering those of Ingmar Bergman. With Persona, he is officially one of my three favorite directors, along with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Paul Thomas […]

WILD STRAWBERRIES (Bergman, 1957)

After seeing two Bergman films and loving them wildly, I turned to Wild Strawberries to further my plunge into his films. A description of the film from iMDB: Explores the disillusionment of an elderly physician, Professor Isak Borg, as he reflects upon his life and begins to perceive his mortality. As he travels to Lund […]