Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
One of the great things about discovering a filmmaker that you love is also discovering that they have a treasure trove of films in their oeuvre that you haven't seen yet. When this happens, it's a pleasure to catch up on what you have missed. After seeing Sicario and Prisoners, two favorites of mine, I started going back into Director Denis Villeneuve's previous films, watching Enemy, Polytechnique and most recently Incendies. Much like Christopher Nolan, Villeneuve is a thinking man's…
One of the most unique films I've ever seen, it's long on visual fireworks but short on cohesiveness, although I suspect there is a method to Director Gaspar Noe's madness. Clocking in at 2 hours and 23 minutes, the film actually begins to move at a steadier pace after the initial half an hour or so. Void is a meditation on death, sex, grief, trauma and the afterlife and explores how our formative years shape our adulthood by way of…