Reviews

Celine Song's film is so well balanced that every character feels fleshed out, so that I really feel Hae Sung's loneliness, Nora's assured dependability offset a little by the magnetic attraction she feels for Hae Sung, and Arthur's trust which still betrays a pang of jealousy and hurt. ...

Other performers, such as Neville Brand, were very much of the time and big in film noir, westerns and the like - Brand plays heavy Gunner - Joe Castro's hatchet man, and a big worry for the heavyset Johnny who at first doesn't look like a capable man in a fight (he'll fix that impression as the fil... ...

Mifune appeared in 16 Kurosawa films, starting with Drunken Angel in 1948 (alongside Shimura.) The two actors appeared together in 53 films over the years, including 15 Akira Kurosawa films. ...

In fact, the structure of the film - which includes components filmed all over New York - makes this more a film about the Big Apple than a murder. ...

Depending on which way you look at it, this dramatic '58 film is either a stinging condemnation of capital punishment or hysterical propaganda - but more curious minds might want to put aside whether Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) was guilty of the murder of Mabel Monohan, and focus on the way the j... ...

I have to admit to having seen both the American and British versions of this movie - there are some interesting differences, and they have completely unique scores composed by different musicians (Franz Waxman the American version and Benjamin Frankel the British.) Obviously they aren't completely ... ...

It's a vibe you rarely get from an out-and-out film noir thriller - something more akin to The Thin Man films - but it also manages to not lose itself and in the end stays the course as far as the seriousness of it's narrative and murderous intrigue goes. ...

Glad to catch this one - Macon Blair won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic for this film at Sundance in 2017, and Melanie Lynskey was nominated for Best Actress at the Gotham Independent Film Awards. ...

Wells calls the film "emotionally autobiographical", which makes it unclear just how much the events in the movie correspond with real life, but what that must mean is that the feelings you get from watching the film are an accurate reflection of her real-life relationship with her father, and the a... ...

Today, CGI would be used to create a film with a much grander visual scale to it - but that would be an utter disservice to A Man For All Seasons, because it's a film that relies on a certain intimacy to proceedings. ...