Archive for May, 2012
Battle of Algiers, The (1966)
[phpbaysidebar keywords=”Battle of Algiers Gillo Pontecorvo” num=”20″ customid=”ClassicArtFilms” country=”1″ sortorder=”EndTimeSoonest” listingtype=”All” minprice=”15″]”Isn’t it cowardly to use your women’s baskets to carry bombs, which have taken so many innocent lives? “Isn’t it even more cowardly to attack defenseless villages with napalm bombs that kill many thousands of times more? Obviously, planes would make things easier for […]
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Reuniting with Mother
Rules of the Game, The (1939)
[phpbaysidebar keywords=”Rules of the Game Jean Renoir” num=”20″ customid=”ClassicArtFilms” country=”1″ sortorder=”EndTimeSoonest” listingtype=”All” minprice=”15″]By February 1939 war was brewing near and a feeling of doom was hanging over Europe. The great French director Jean Renoir anticipated for war and troubled by it, he created a remarkable comedy of manners, an absurd comic farce that ends in tragedy. A total box-office […]
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Beauty and the Beast (1946)
[phpbaysidebar keywords=”Beauty and the Beast Jean Cocteau” num=”20″ customid=”ClassicArtFilms” country=”1″ sortorder=”EndTimeSoonest” listingtype=”All” minprice=”15″]”Children believe what we tell them. They have complete faith in us. They believe that a rose plucked from a garden can plunge a family into conflict. They believe that the hands of a human beast will smoke when he slays a victim […]
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8½ (1963)
[phpbaysidebar keywords=”8 ½ Federico Fellini” num=”20″ customid=”ClassicArtFilms” country=”1″ sortorder=”EndTimeSoonest” listingtype=”All” minprice=”15″]”In the case of 8 ½, something happened to me which I had feared could happen, but when it did, it was more terrible than I could ever have imagined. I suffered director’s block, like writer’s block. I had a waiting for me to make […]
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