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The Departed 2006
“The Departed” (famously, and controversially, the film for which Martin Scorsese received his one and only Academy Award) is, besides “Gangs of New York”, one of two gangster films in Scorsese’s oeuvre which doesn’t happen to portray the Italian-American mafia. And there are surprisingly many similarities between “Gangs of New York” and “The Departed”. Being an auteur, the films of Scorsese always tend to complement and communicate with each other, but here, it actually feels like Scorsese “redoing” something of…
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The Young and the Damned 1950
“Los olvidados”, which solidified Bunuel’s return to the ranks of internationally successful and recognized filmmakers, is a social realist film about juvenile delinquency in the slums of Mexico City. It was made during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema but is always inevitably compared to other movements in film history, as it’s particularly seen as a counterpart of Italian neorealism and French poetic realism. However, where it differs from these European films is the decisive lack of melodrama and sentimentality,…
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Dune: Part Two 2024
With “Dune: Part Two”, Denis Villeneuve finishes his film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s monumental sci-fi epos “Dune”. While it fortunately improves on its strengths, it also carries onwards the flaws from its predecessor. It glosses over and rushes through various story beats and plot points. In its vast pool of themes, Villeneuve has to prioritize, but even the themes he chooses to prioritize on feel underdeveloped, and the same goes for the characters and their relationships, which feel underwritten and…
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The Power of Speech 1988
In 1988, Godard received a commission from French telecommunications company Francé Telecom to make an image film for them. He followed their bidding, but to quite unexpected results. Not knowing what to begin with the proposed finished product, they rejected it, and ever since it has fallen into obscurity, like many of his video works from that period. Nevertheless, it is one of Godard's crowning achievements in the art of video, successfully managing to elevate it into spheres that are…
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