Month: June, 2009


Director: Fritz Lang Country: Germany Year: 1931 “Lang seems always to have been interested in what happens to individuals who come up against the larger power of organisations, bureaucracies, criminal networks — all the modern apparatus of surveillance and control. Almost always these individuals are destroyed by the encounter: they don’t find justice even if [...]


Director: Miloš Forman Country: Czechoslovakia Year: 1965 “I know this sounds so little, and not serious enough, but I believe that I have to have fun. We all have to have fun – me, the actors, the cameraman, everybody should feel as if we are making a home movie, because that is the only way [...]



Director: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger Country: United Kingdom Year: 1943 “The Archers took the class satire and social consciousness found in the best work of Noel Coward — as well as in the original David Low cartoon whence the ‘Colonel Blimp’ character originated — and turned those elements into something uniquely theirs, a film [...]


“What most surprised me about this early British offering from Hitchcock was not that it is a superbly crafted suspense-thriller, which indeed it is, but that it also offers a hefty dose of humor, much of which had me laughing out loud.”Thomas Scalzo, notcoming.com “Watching The Lady Vanishes is like going into an attic and [...]