Wong Kar Wai has observed that critics tend to read the title of this movie ironically, but that for him there is no irony. No irony in the title, perhaps, but Happy Together is deeply concerned with the fundamental irony that mercy all too often can tip Read More …
“Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen.” The cinema of Robert Bresson is difficult to crystallize, but the great director himself came close with these words. The rhythm of a Bresson film has one purpose—to uncover, layer by layer, the effervescent connections Read More …
The Ox-Bow Incident is a movie about mercy refused. The citizens of Ox-Bow are hardened men and women, reacting in fear against an outside terror that binds them together into an unthinking mass and blinds them to the real humanity of their victims. Yet throughout the Read More …
Appreciation coming. Directed by: Maurice Cloche Produced by: Viscount George de la Grandiere André Halley des Fontaines André Lejard Georges Maurer Written by: Jean Anouilh Jean Bernard-Luc Music by: Jean-Jacques Grünenwald Jean Dalve Cinematography by: Claude Renoir Editing by: Jean Feyte Release Date: 1947 Running Read More …