Showing posts with label drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drama. Show all posts

Thursday, December 6, 2012

If...., Lindsay Anderson, 1968

In this allegorical story, a revolution lead by pupil Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) takes place at an old established private school in England.






















Sunday, November 13, 2011

Vargtimmen [Hour of the Wolf], Ingmar Bergman, 1968

An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories.





Saturday, October 1, 2011

C'est Arrivé Près de Chez Vous [Man Bites Dog], Rémy Belvaux, 1992

A camera crew follows a serial killer/thief around as he exercises his craft. He expounds on art, music, nature, society, and life as he offs mailmen, pensioners, and random people. Slowly he begins involving the camera crew in his activities, and they begin wondering if what they're doing is such a good idea, particularly when the killer kills a rival and the rival's brother sends a threatening letter.









Sunday, June 12, 2011

Les Yeux Sans Visage [Eyes Without a Face], Georges Franju, 1960

A surgeon, feeling guilty over his daughter's facial disfigurement--so horrible that she wears a mask--in an accident for which he was responsible, uses his assistant to kidnap young women. He attempts, without success, to transfer their faces to his daughter.





















Sunday, May 8, 2011

Repulsion, Roman Polanski, 1965

Left alone when her sister goes on vacation, a sexually repressed young beauty goes insane with surreal fantasies of seduction and rape.