Review coming.
Arts & Faith Lists:
2020 Top 100 — #98
If, as they say, writing about music is like dancing about architecture, then how does one describe a film like Koyaanisqatsi (1983), which has no actors, no dialogue, and no plot, but consists instead of nothing but music and images (some of which, incidentally, do happen to revolve around architecture)? Well, we can begin by looking at…
Appreciation coming. Directed by: Satyajit Ray Produced by: Satyajit Ray Written by: Tarashankar Banerjee Satyajit Ray Santi P. Choudhury Music by: Ustad Vilayat Khan Robin Majumdar Cinematography by: Subrata Mitra Editing by: Dulal Dutta Release Date: 1958 Running Time: 95 Language: Bengali, English Arts & Faith Lists: 2020 Top 100 — #50
Most everyone has heard of Bicycle Thieves. Even those who have never heard of neorealism. Even those who might not know the name Vittorio De Sica. It is the original film celebrity — famous for being famous. Woody Allen named it one of his five favorite films. Martin Scorsese introduces it for Turner Classic Movies in…
Appreciation coming. Directed by: Lech Majewski Produced by: Lech Majewski Written by: Michael Francis Gibson Lech Majewski Music by: Lech Majewski Józef Skrzek Cinematography by: Lech Majewski Adam Sikora Editing by: Lech Majewski Norbert Rudzik Release Date: 2011 Running Time: 92 Language: English, Spanish, Flemis Arts & Faith Lists: 2020 Top 100 — #60
Despite its reputation as the picture that undeservedly beat Citizen Kane for Best Picture and Director Academy Awards, How Green Was My ValleyM remains a stirring and vital portrait of a close-knit community in all its glory—and all its failings. Seen through the eyes of a boy approaching manhood, it’s the chronicle of a quaint Welsh community and one…
“I feel like it should mean nothing or everything,” Travis says of the Christianity that he sees professed by others and lived by Martin, “and I can’t get to either place.” This is Martin Bonner is the rare recent film where Christian characters talk like Christians I know. Martin has been hurt by the church….