If there's a writer-director who I’d be willing to watch his intellectual *** on screen for over 2 hours, it'd be Charlie Kaufman (writer of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation). Like philosophical novels, I’m thinking of Ending Things takes the form of film as a vehicle for a philosophical discourse on loneliness, hopelessness, and the passage of time.
Based on the novel by the same, the film starts with a young woman who is heading with her new…
What an enjoyable film. Billy Wilder touches on urban loneliness, emotional reticence, and office entrapment with such gentleness and lighthearted cynicism. Sharp and witty dialogue along with nice acting make it quite entertaining. For many reasons, including being a Hollywood film, it had to have a happy ending so it has the feel-good uplifting factor that certainly helps, although I would have personally preferred a different - more natural ending which I think might have raised the film in appreciation over the years.
A compelling and well-constructed anti-war film, that feels ahead of its time specially with the sociopolitical situation in the middle east. It was Israel's Academy Award entry for best foreign film in 1986, and was described by Ariel Sharon, the Minister of Industry and Commerce back then as "a self-destructive portrait of inept Jews".
The narrative traces the surreal journey of two Egyptian soldiers crossing the Sinai desert to reach the Egyptian lines beyond Suez Canal, following the defeat of…
