Girish Shambu writes in Days and Nights of a Cinephile…
There are movies we encounter at certain points in our appreciation for the medium that become, almost by accident, little breakthroughs in our viewing life. They may not be great masterpieces—though they well might—but the important thing is that we have the fortune of meeting up [...]
Archive for May, 2009
signpost films
Posted in articles on May 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
putting down the whip
Posted in articles on May 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Forty Guns (1957)
Director: Samuel Fuller
With: Barbara Stanwyck
Samuel Fuller made the most of what little he had, not unlike those scrappy pioneers that tamed the West. He made an art out of taking what might have been slight B-pictures and terraforming them into substantial genre/gender/generation-challenging films.
40 Guns opens with a majestic Scope panorama of three men, [...]
shot through the heart
Posted in recommendations on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
35 Rhums (35 Shots of Rum) (2008)
Director: Claire Denis
With: Alex Descas
It’s been some time since I’ve put pen to paper (or digits to keyboard, as it were) to hash out my thoughts on the seventh art. Not much to say about it other than that, um, I’m sorry.
What then would be the film that would [...]
