Scribbles and Ramblings

Spotlight on the first four feature films of Hou Hsiao-hsien: Cute Girl (1980) Cheerful Wind (1981) The Green, Green Grass of Home (19...

Spotlight on 4 DEFA Sci-Fi Films The Silent Star (1960, Kurt Maetzig) Signals (1970, Gottfried Kolditz) Eolomea (1972, Herrmann Zschoc...

Spotlight on the following 5 films of Soi Cheang: Accident (2009) Motorway (2012) Kill Zone 2 (2015) Limbo (2021) Twilight of the ...

After the rich global cinematic feast dished out by the 1960s, one would have expected that the 1970s would have increased that output. How...

Cloud (2024, Japan, Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Cloud continues the multi-genre style associated with Kurosawa’s films and fits nicely within Kurosa...

I have to thank Michael Guillen for helping me realize the importance of the human body in David Cronenberg’s films. Michael’s 2007 intervie...

The 1950s saw the release of many brilliant works of cinema from around the world but the 1960s increased that quality substantially. The 1...

Safe to say, the world had more serious matters to consider in the 1940s. Yet, somehow this decade resulted in two films that have dominated...

While the 1920s produced a wealth of cinematic riches, that decade also marked the final flourish of silent cinema. The 1930s were character...

My previous comments about the broken film distribution model still stands for 2024. What I didn’t expect was that this broken distribution ...

This Best of Decades list is inspired by the recent Decades Countdown at Wonders in the Dark . Also, the idea of looking back at Cinema made...

The Best Films of the 1950s list is inspired by the Decades list countdown at Wonders in the Dark.  I will duly post the previous decades li...