A personal journal of film and documentary reviews, and reviews of anything else that intrigues me.
Norbert A Myles, “The Daughter of Dawn” (1920) Believed to have been lost after initial screenings in 1920, until nearly 100 years late when a private…
Martin Scorsese, “Killers of the Flower Moon” (2023) At nearly three-and-a-half hours in length, “Killers of the Flower Moon” combines elements of revisionist / psychological Western,…
Australian and New Zealand Films
Rolf de Heer, “The Tracker” (2002) On the surface, a simple story of four men hunting a fugitive who has committed a crime, “The Tracker” is…
German and German-language Films, North American Films
Wim Wenders, “Paris, Texas” (1984) One of American cinema’s finest yet under-appreciated treasures must surely be the unassuming actor Harry Dean Stanton whose acting career reached…
Hiroshi Inagaki, “Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island” (1956) Inagaki’s third and last installment in the historical fiction drama series on the life and times of…
Hiroshi Inagaki, “Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple” (1955) Its predecessor in the Musashi Miyamoto trilogy might have won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film…
Hiroshi Inagaki, “Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto” (1954) One of the most famous people in Japanese culture is the swordsman and mystic Musashi Miyamoto, author of “Gorin…
Bo Mathorne, “The Backwater Gospel” (2011) In a total running time of just over nine minutes, this raw and stark animation is a superb comment on…
Seijun Suzuki, “A Tattooed Life / Irezumi Ichidai” (1965) A surprisingly touching and quite emotional drama, told in a traditional way, this is an underrated yakuza…
Irving Moore, “The Wild, Wild West (Season 2, Episode 20: Night of the Vicious Valentine)” (1966) This episode is notable for winning the series its only…