Under Southern Eyes – Page 94 – A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.

Oldboy: arthouse film trappings cannot disguise a flimsy plot, flat characters and an empty message

Chanwook Park, “Oldboy” (2003) When I saw this film the first time over a decade

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Peter Weir, “The Cars that Ate Paris” (1974) Acclaimed Australian director Peter Weir’s directorial full-length

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Joon-ho Bong, “Snowpiercer / Seolgugyeolcha” (2013) Joon-ho Bong’s first outing in the English language is

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, “Lili Marleen” (1981) An unhappy tale of thwarted love, Fassbinder’s “Lili Marleen”

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Mark Devries, “Speciesism: the Movie” (2013) As home movies go, few possibly extend very far

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Abderrahmane Sissako, “Timbuktu” (2014) Set in northern Mali some time after the downfall of Colonel

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Luchino Visconti, “Il Gattopardo / The Leopard” (1963) A sumptuous film even by the glamorous

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, “Der Amerikanische Soldat / The American Soldier” (1970) A loosely stitched pastiche

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Rainer Werner Fassbinder, “Götter der Pest / Gods of the Plague” (1970) Following on from

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“Coffee and Papers with The Sydney Morning Herald, Jeremy Scahill and Antony Loewenstein,” Sydney Writers

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