My Favorite Movies 11 – Nosferatu (Werner Herzog, 1979)
It is astonishing how different Werner Herzog’s Nosferatu: Phantom of the Night is from Murnau’s classic silent horror film considering it is an almost […]
foreign film
Films not in English.
Bad Boys 2 – The Lost Scripts: Bergman, Rohmer and Herzog
The world film community was rocked this year when pieces of three alternate movie scripts for Bad Boys 2 surfaced. […]
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Liebe ist tod.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder is one of the greatest film directors the world has ever known. He directed his first feature […]
My third favorite movie in the whole world: Play Time
This series of “my favorite movies in the whole world” is going to get increasingly silly as no one can […]
The Films of Eric Rohmer: They just have a certain je ne se quois!
I should point out (in reference to the picture for this post) that there is not typically a lot of nudity/sex (there […]
L’Avventura – A Study in Alienation
Another one bites the dust. One day after Bergman’s death, elite European director, Michelangelo Antonioni, has died as well. I’m […]
My second favorite movie in the whole world: Scenes from a Marriage.
Bergman is a director that seems to be rather out of favor these days. Pretentious, old fashioned, one note, everyone […]
Foreign Film Fun Facts – European Tour!
I don’t like to stereotype, but…French movies are a little fruity. German films? Not the greatest komedies. Polish cinema? Heartwarming […]
My favorite movie in the whole world: The Mirror.
There is a scene in Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Mirror where a young child looks through a book of art. The […]
My Favorite Movies 1 — The Wages of Fear (H. G. Clouzot, 1953)
Having recently seen Wages of Fear for the third time, I have to say it is just as intense as […]