A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Martin Small, “Masters of Money (Episode 1: Keynes)” (2012) This is the first episode of a three-part series by the BBC on significant economists / philosophers…
Leif Kaldor, “Remote Control War” (2011) “Remote Control War” presents as a sober documentary on the use of robotics in war, conflict and espionage in the…
French and French-language Films
Eugène Deslaw, “Montparnasse” (1929) Come take a tour of Montparnasse as it was in 1929 with Eugène Deslaw to guide you. At the time, this district in…
French and French-language Films
Malgorzata Szumowska, “Elles” (2011) An interesting and layered film that appears to say whatever viewers may want it to say, “Elles” initially presents as a critique…
French and French-language Films
Eugène Deslaw, “Un monsieur qui a mangé du taureau” (1935) We all know of people who spout a lot of BULL but what happens to people…
French and French-language Films
Eugène Deslaw, “La Marche des Machines” (1927) / Les Nuits Électriques” (1928) The Ukrainian film-maker Eugène Deslaw made a number of fairly short experimental films in the…
French and French-language Films
Abel Gance and Eugène Deslaw, “Autour de La Fin du Monde” (1930) I had heard that there was a French science fiction film “La Fin du…
Ian MacNaughton, “Out of the Trees” (1975) Huge surprise when I was surfing Youtube.com one day: a pilot for an abandoned TV show written by former…
Kathryn Bigelow, “Zero Dark Thirty” (2012) This film purports to document the hunt for World Public Enemy No 1, the Saudi national Osama bin Laden, and…
Juan Antonio Bayona, “The Impossible / Lo Impossible” (2012) Someone should have told Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts before they signed up to this film the…