Under Southern Eyes – Page 141 – A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.

The Man without a Past: heart-warming comedy about need for “identity” to survive in modern society

Aki Kaurismäki, “The Man without a Past” (2002) A heart-warming comedy about a man who

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Song Ilgon, “Spider Forest” (2004) Amusing if eccentric film that straddles a grey zone between

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Josh Fox, “Gasland” (2010) Written, filmed, narrated and directed by Josh Fox, this documentary is

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Robert Connolly, “Balibo” (2009) Imaginatively constructed as three stories that initially fit into one another

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Alfred Hitchcock, “Strangers on a Train” (1951) As with many other films made by English-American

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Oliver Hirschbiegel, “Downfall” (2004) This is an incredible and masterly fictional dramatisation of the last

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Baek Seungbin, “Members of the Funeral” (2008) An interesting little gem from South Korea that’s

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Hayao Miyazaki, “Princess Mononoke” (1997) When I first saw this movie about a decade ago,

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Alfred Hitchcock, “The 39 Steps” (1935) Very loosely based on John Buchan’s novel “The Thirty-Nine