Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The 2006 physiological drama directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and written by Guillermo Arriaga follows a series of storylines across the world, all connected through an accidental shooting incident in Morocco. A rural goatherder in Morocco buys a rifle from another local man to keep the jackals away from his herd, but as his sons take it and test out the distance of the weapon one aims at a tour bus and an American women, Cate Blanchett, who is travelling…
Directed by Les Blank, Burden of Dreams in a 1982 documentary and behind-the-scenes film of the movie Fitzcarraldo, released the same year. The documentary features Werner Herzog, the visionary behind the film who wrote, directed and produced the adventure drama as well as the main actors and team of the filming. The documentary highlights the challenges of the making of the movie in the remote jungles of Peru, such as restarting the film after the original leading actor dropped out…
In Wolfgang Becker’s 2003 "Good Bye Lenin!" set in East Germany during the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany under the democratic government, Alexander, played by German actor Daniel Brühl, protects his recovering comatosed mother, played by Katrin Sass, from discovering the fall of the socialist government. As a devoted socialist party member, Alexander fears the sudden change Berlin and the world has faced in the past eight months may place his mother at risk of…
The 2006 Bon Cop Bad Cop, directed by by Érik Canuel is a Canadian comedy thriller-mystery about two detectives, one from Montreal and one from Toronto who have to work together for an inter-provincial investigation. The Quebecois David Bouchard played by Patrick Huard and Torontonian Martin Ward, Colm Feore, must work to set their professional approach, cultural and linguistic differences aside to solve the cases of the Tattoo Killer. This film can be seen as an example of the national…