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2020 Top 100 — #73
Appreciation coming. Directed by: Kirsten Johnson Produced by: Written by: Doris Baizely Lisa Freedman Music by: Cinematography by: Editing by: Release Date: 2016 Running Time: 102 Language: English Arts & Faith Lists: 2020 Top 100 — #58
Steely with conviction, luminous with wisdom and wit, Fred Zinnemann’s impeccable film of Robert Bolt’s play about the life of Thomas More explores what defines a man, or what is left to a man who has no defining center that cannot be bought or coerced. Successful, urbane, gregarious, ridiculously talented and accomplished, Thomas More was the…
John Ford’s 1956 Western, The Searchers, ends with the camera framing a doorway, looking out into the gloriously filmed desert. As his remaining friends and family cross over the threshold into the welcoming house, John Wayne’s Ethan Edwards stays outside, watching them. Then he pauses a moment, turns, and walks off into the red dust. There’s…
A romantic triangle is one of the most common storylines in film. The characters are usually pretty well defined: a well meaning guy with a raging libido, a gorgeous woman with loose morals, and a sweet sensible girl pining for a husband. And of course, there is sex. But what if a film replaces this…
Whirring helicopter blades slowly dissolve into the rotating ceiling fan of Capt. Willard’s Saigon apartment, as he drinks himself into oblivion. Lt. Col. Kilgore blasts Wagner from his infantry helicopters as they decimate a Viet Cong village. The mad genius, Col. Kurtz, sets himself up as a god, deep in the jungles of Cambodia. These…
Review coming. Directed by: Abderrahmane Sissako Produced by: Rémi Burah Etienne Comar Sylvie Pialat Olivier Père Benoît Quainon Gilles Sitbon Written by:Abderrahmane Sissako Kessen Tall Music by: Amin Bouhafa Cinematography by: Sofian El Fani Editing by: Nadia Ben Rachid Release Date: 2014 Running Time: 96 Language: French, Arabic, English Arts & Faith Lists: 2020 Top…