Does anyone talk about the long take in Julien Temple’s Absolute Beginners? Whenever a list of the “best long takes” appears, the usual suspects are always on there: Russian Ark, Week End, The Player, Touch of […]
It’s about 10 minutes into Richard Loncraine’s Richard III (1995) before we hear any kind of substantive spoken words. And it’s only then – after a telegram, a tank busting into an ostensible bunker, and the […]
In Francois Truffaut’s The Story of Adele H. (1975), love–unrequited love to be exact–is like a virus. It consumes the young Adele Hugo, the second daughter to author Victor, to a point where she stalks the […]
I knew the moment April Love ended, I would not remember anything about it, which is why I started to outline this review on paper. But my notes were much like the film; scattered, slapdash, […]
What if, after the fairy tale is finished, star crossed love isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be? That’s what The Fantasticks blithely asks of its young romantic leads, Jean Louisa Kelly and Joey […]
I’m inclined to think that both Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins’s voices were made for narration. Or, even more frankly, made to be heard in any form, in any context, at any time. But their […]
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