Films Indexed
- Director: Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck
- Year: 2006
Stasi surveillance
He is amazed to see not only that information was omitted, but that this operative fabricated the details of a whole play Dreyman and his cohorts were supposed to have written for the 40th anniversary of East Germany’s founding.
- Director: Barbara Kopple
- Year: 1976
You can’t topple Kopple
The film melds history and drama with pathos and even humour. The scene where strikers go to New York City, and one gets schooled in how poorly they have it by a New York flatfoot, is priceless.
- Director: Daniel Barber
- Year: 2009
Murky Harry
In a sense Harry Brown is a postmodern moral fable. And it’s difficult to avoid the conclusion that the gritty ultra-violent and moralising revenge ethos of this film speaks to a significant number of people.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
- Director: Jason Reitman
- Year: 2009
A therapeutic Odyssey
Ryan can go home to a sparse Omaha apartment but chooses not to. He lives in hotels 322 days a year spending only ‘43 miserable days at home.’ He doesn’t want a family, preferring one night stands in hotels to any relationship. His aim is the privileges that flow from becoming number seven on the list of people who have flown ten million air miles.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
- Director: Robert Bresson
- Year: 1967
Tale and performance
The camera always seems to look at its lead character’s life slightly askance, as if it was somehow recapitulating the clearly warped view of life Mouchette owns. In essence, the film called Mouchette recapitulates the point of view of its character Mouchette, which allows the viewer to both ‘feel’ a bit of the character’s warp, while also being able to step back and intellectually distance oneself and ‘understand’ the character’s warp.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
