I've just seen this film again, and found that it did not stand up very well to a second viewing. I still think that the directing is excellent (this is...
Thank you to everyone who has supported the first Bi-Annual Sugar Screenwriting Competition for Summer 2003. The response was superb and the standard already...
A fairly gentle comedy/road movie about a dull Midlander called Colin and his adventures on the road to Blackpool. Why Blackpool ? well that is where his wife...
I thought this was excellent. Set amongst London's illegal immigrants and dealing with the trade in human organs, the story is told with grim compassion by...
At last – they've released this classic movie on DVD in the UK. I haven't had time to get to the extras yet (which look quite good), but watching the film...
At the beginning I thought this was going to be something special. A slow-burner about an elderly Jewish pawnbroker who is gradually being made to face up to...
No matter how many films I watch, it's always surprising how many classics I never quite catch up with. Well, I've finally managed to see this film - a kind...
An epic tale of the Jewish mafia in New York, concentrating on De Niro's character "Noodles". De Niro is on great form, as is his main co-star James Woods. I...
A great film that unlike most modern gangster films that owe more to the western for much of their inspiration, this film looks towards the stories of Public...
the only new films i've seen that are good were the Harry Potter ones and a Persian film called, "Children of Heaven." (Color of Paradise was excellent as...
Olivier Assayas' film is a low key study of two troubled adolescents from broken homes, set in the seventies. One of them, Christine, is about to be put in...
The tale of a peasant family who move to the city. The story is structured to concentrate on each of the five brothers in turn, but the main protagonists are...
The film begins with an extreme close-up of one of Carla (Emmanuelle Devos) with the sounds around her severely muffled. Then we are in wider shot and the...
You may be wondering why Asian cinema isn't more popular in this country; well the answer of course is that it is all a bit crap. This South Korean effort...
... Well, you're wrong, obviously. But I will say this: whereas, say, Hong Kong has had a history of innovation in action cinema (with wire-enhanced kung fu...
Two angels who walk about Berlin, listening to people's thoughts, and dispensing some sort of strange comfort. One of them longs to be mortal and feel what it...
I could make the argument that the contemporary renaissance of cinema in Asia is the most important film movement since New German Cinema. However I will let...
I have heard you on more then one occasion criticize films for being "melodramatic." I recently took a film course in Melodrama and Feminist Criticism. After...
Yes, I agree! Melodrama is fine where it is appropriate. However, in some films, such as Rocco, I did't find it very successful. (Having said that, I've only...
Unfortunately I am one of those people who make their own minds up, rather than let panels of film critics do it for me. I have always found that a certain...
Mike - I think you've hit on an excellent definition of what this Group should be about: "for people who make their own minds up". I may not always agree with...
Another "classic" that I'm catching up with. I've seen lots of clips of the film, and heard lots of talk about it, but never managed to get round to watching...
Is it really fifteen years since this came out in the UK? With this following "Paris, Texas", Wenders was for a brief time at the top of the heap of world...
The fact is that all the directors mentioned have films that can be found at your local Blockbuster. I think that qualifies them as being accessible, it's...
It seems to me that you are presenting your view that someone else's opinion is "crap" as being a fact. This is not the place for making accusations at others,...
I always liked "Wings of Desire" as it showed that a person such as Falk could put money into an independent "art" film and make money (I think?). Where would...
