Romantic Realism: Michael Haneke’s Amour (2012) – Blu-ray review
You say Amour, Michael Haneke says à mort. Love and death are inseparable, as old age conspires to end a lifelong romance. Amour..
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Toxic Theatre: Sacha Guitry’s La Poison (1951) – Blu-rau review
Not cinematic enough for the official history of French cinema, maybe, but the locals knew all along that Guitry’s barbed theatrics still..
Singular Image: Carl Theodor Dreyer’s The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (1928) – Masters of Cinema Blu-ray review
Are you ready for your close-up? Over seventy years old, but so rarely copied that it still feels groundbreaking. The Passion of Joan of..
Stage Direction: Marcel Carné’s Les Enfants Du Paradis (1945) – Blu-ray review
French critics famously voted the film the best ever made in that country. In truth, it’s better than that. Les Enfants Du Paradis..
The Wellspring of Noir: Marcel Carné’s Le Quai Des Brumes (1938) – Blu-ray review
Le Quai Des Brumes isn’t the reason that ‘film noir’ has a French name, but it may as well be. Le Quai des Brumes (Marcel Carne,..
