Not since 1985, which saw both Klimov's 'Come and See' and Lanzmann's 'Shoah', have both a great drama and a great documentary about the Holocaust been released in the same year. We had to wait until 2023 for this feat to be repeated, with Glazer's masterful 'The Zone of Interest' and McQueen's outstanding 'Occupied City'.
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September 5 2024
Effective chamber piece thriller - the tension and claustrophobia of the TV control room mirroring that of the unfolding hostage situation, respecting the viewers ability to fill in the blanks rather than relying on dramatic reconstruction, in contrast with Spielberg's admirable but ponderous 'Munich'. A little over 2 years after October 7, it is hard not to see the film as something of an allegory of the horrors that took place that day (which included hostage taking), much of them…
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A Hidden Life 2019
One of the few clear-cut masterpieces of the new century, and certainly worth the 8 year wait since Malick's last such achievement. A deceptively simple film which will in many ways be lost on those who lack familiarity with theological motifs. Flawlessly acted, scripted and photographed, this may be the greatest cinematic meditation (or rather 'sermon') on the cost of faithfulness since Dreyer's Joan of Arc.
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A Story of Children and Film 2013
Re-watched this in preparation for 'Women Make Film' and glad that I did so, as it contains the nucleus of the idea for Mark Cousins' latest project. This is a very special film as it not only explores the significant contribution that children have made on-screen throughout the history of cinema, but is also a meditation on the concept of 'film' only being a 100 year-old art-form and therefore representing the 'child' amongst the arts.
At only 100 minutes, this…
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