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Italian cinema was once distinguished for its postwar “neorealism” movement, with films that were shot on location in a stripped down, almost documentary style, exemplified by titles like Rossellini’s Rome, Open City (1946) and de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948). Times seem to have changed, though not necessarily for the worse. With a [...]

The late Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Kieslowski said of the making of his masterwork The Decalogue, “We know no more than you. But maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.”
Kielowski created influential works that delved into man’s relationship [...]

As the 1960’s fade further from view, and the images of an unquestionably important decade in world history are sanitized to the point of parody, it’s imperative to remember that not everyone can look back with the benefit of rose-colored glasses. With the hippie wigs in mothballs, the music re-packaged again [...]

The latest film from Polish director Andrzej Wajda, Katyn, recalls the horrific event of the Soviet-led massacre in the Katyn forest (Circa 1940). This is a dark movie and justifiably so, for in my opinion, there is no other place in this world with a history as violent and gritty as Eastern Europe’s. Katyn is [...]

When one stops to think of exactly how many films in the last sixty-odd years have been made about World War II, it boggles the mind. An encyclopedia that listed each of them, alphabetically, would run thousands of pages, and would still need to be updated every month. Today, we will open that book and [...]

During the recent Academy Awards, Frank Langella was revered by Best Actor presenter Michael Douglas: “The pitfalls of playing a historical figure so familiar and so widely interpreted are too numerous to mention -  which is why when I viewed in amazement the new life brought to Richard Nixon by Frank Langella … the comparisons [...]

The way I saw it, Changeling felt like a strange love child born out of both the acting style of Angelina Jolie’s earlier works, i.e., Girl, Interrupted and a visual tale of desperate humanization that Clint Eastwood has begun to constantly barrage our theaters with. Changeling is the story of a mother whose child is [...]