Directed by Fred Zinnemann High Noon takes place over the course of a tense but mostly uneventful 90 minutes, at least until the expected gunfight which ends the film. The story concerns a freshly married, newly retired Marshal, Will Kane (Gary Cooper), whose sense of duty compels him to stay on the job just a … Continue reading High Noon (1952)
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Unsane (2018)
Directed by Steven Soderbergh Unsane is a pulpy little thriller shot on iPhone and with strong thematic connections to the "MeToo" movement. It begins as a story about mental health, but as many of Sawyer's (Claire Foy) fears are realized, the subtext and the conversation transforms before our eyes. Sawyer has a mysterious past, something … Continue reading Unsane (2018)
Shoah (1985)
Directed by Claude Lanzmann Where do you begin with something like this? I've never seen a film like Shoah. It's hard to even call it a film. The nine and a half hour documentary is just a series of long conversations with people touched by the Holocaust, many survivors and others perpetrators. The conversations at time … Continue reading Shoah (1985)
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