According to Letterboxd, SATANTANGO by Bela Tarr is over seven hours long. I've never seen it, but I'm more willing to sit through those seven hours than ever watch the Two hours of RED ONE ever again.
This has to be the longest two hours of movie I've ever seen. I'm normally annoyed by people that use their cel phones in a movie, but to that anonymous person that kept looking at their phone, I say, "Thank you. You let…
VERTIGO might be the ultimate warning against nostalgia.
There's not a lot that hasn't been said about Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 film starring Jimmy Stewart (John “Scotty” Ferguson) and Kim Novak (Madeline) but that's not a reason to say nothing. At almost 70 years old, it is visited and revisited by critics and fans alike. The reasons vary, the detractors use it to condemn Hitchcock's abusive sexism, the admirers praise its artistry and craft. None of them are wrong.
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It is not without irony the the trailer for the DOWNTON ABBEY movie played before Jennifer Kent's THE NIGHTINGALE. After all, the depravity of this, paid for the genteel finery of the former.
THE NIGHTINGALE is a remorseless and unsentimental depiction of the brutality that builds empires. And it literally and figuratively takes no prisoners.
Set in 19th Century Australia, the film is an odyssey of revenge and anger, justified, and this film is one of the rare examples where…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
"How does a forty year old man admit he was on the wrong side?"
Journey back with me, to the elegant waltzes, the pageantry, the real men of honor and duty, and the grand aristocracy of a time lost to the travails of history... and the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Except all of that hides a structure built of lies, prejudice, and incompetence that can only exist because of a failure of the highest levels of power to…
