Month: November, 2009
Sun 29 Nov 2009
The White Sheik
Category: Janus Challenge
4 Comments
Director: Federico Fellini
Country: Italy
Year: 1952
“I would love to see a festival dedicated to first films. Sometimes they have nothing to do with the work that develops later, and sometimes the work never gets better. But sometimes you can see the hints of what would come later bursting through like an eruption from another film entirely. [...]
Sun 22 Nov 2009
The Wages of Fear
Category: Janus Challenge
2 Comments
Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
Country: France
Year: 1953
“You think that people are all good or all bad. You think that good means light and bad means night? But where does night end and light begin? Where is the borderline? Do you even know which side you belong on?”Dr Vorzet, Le Corbeau
“Life has never been very kind to me. [...]
Sun 15 Nov 2009
Viridiana
Category: Janus Challenge
4 Comments
Director: Luis Buñuel
Country: Spain
Year: 1961
“The theme is that well-intended charity can often be badly misplaced by innocent, pious people. Therefore, beware of charity. That is the obvious moral that forms in this grim and tumorous tale of a beautiful young religious novice who gets into an unholy mess when she gives up her holy calling [...]
Sun 8 Nov 2009
The Virgin Spring
Category: Janus Challenge
1 Comment
I’ve already written about Bergman when we watched The Seventh Seal. Perhaps more to the point, I’m getting bored. Thus, I thought we’d try something a little different this week. I watched both The Virgin Spring and its unofficial 1972 remake, The Last House on the Left. Quite a double bill. First I’ll tell you [...]
Sun 1 Nov 2009
Umberto D.
Category: Janus Challenge
2 Comments
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Country: Italy
Year: 1952
“I’ve lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I’m glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.”Vittorio De Sica
“My films are a struggle against the absence of human solidarity… against the [...]
