Exactly 10 years after the release of Herzog's Aguirre, The Wrath of God, we get another Herzog movie, also starring Klaus Kinski as a man who makes an ill-advised trip in the Amazon river. Centuries separate the stories of Aguirre, the conquistador, and Fitzcarraldo, a man who aims to bring the opera to the deepest Amazon jungle, a place where few share his passion and none his vision.
Herzog's film is worth it as much for the exploration of human…
A fantastic film about a real story of the arts thriving in what might at first seem like an unlikely place, Sing Sing tells the story of a group of prisoners (some played by the real prisoners themselves) at that famous jail, who joined a theatre group within the institution and through it learned about themselves and each other.
With a cast led by the always brilliant Coleman Domingo, the film is at the same time life affirming in the…
A great little film, Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes might at first seem like a pretentious retro-tribute film, but stick with it, as halfway through you realise that it is exactly what the film is trying to be and what it is about.
Clearly broken into two very distinct halves, it is both a tribute to 70s "art horror" of the kind produced in continental Europe as well as a tribute to the times and the crews that produced that…
I should have given up on Aronofsky a long time ago, a director who thinks he is much smarter than he actually is, he is also a director who manages to make invariably exploitative films with the peculiar factor that they are both exploitative and boring. Look, I watch a lot of crap, I love exploitation cinema, from bad horror and sexploitation to blaxploitation, it makes up about a third of the stuff I watch, but if there is one…
