Defiant Success

Foreign filmmakers always have a way of eroticizing almost everything in their work. It's just a peculiar knack among them. Wong Kar-w...

I've always liked Olivia de Havilland. She provides bouts of cheeriness in many of her films. However, I had only seen her in costume dr...

I didn't watch it, but there were a few moments that sounded amusing. And I wasn't bad at guessing...ish.  Underlined  means my pred...

The two main characters of Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle rouge  are both criminals. One is fresh out of jail, the other is on the run...

Jean-Pierre Melville was an interesting sort of director. On the one hand, he knew how to depict the criminal lifestyle. (Or at least from w...

In a way, one can almost support Ferdinando (Marcello Mastroianni) during his plight of trying to dispose his wife. Can you blame him? His w...

Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Doulos  was probably one of the few early films that depicted lives both on the run and behind the badge. Of c...

We've heard of countless American directors naming those from foreign countries as influences. (Do the names Bergman and Fellini ring a ...

Poppy (Sally Hawkins), the protagonist of Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky , is the kind of person one would encounter every now and again. Y...

We've all heard of those stories, the ones about people with ideal lives but also a dark side as well. We ourselves might have encounter...