This may be Jean-Pierre Melville’s most concentrated film, and it is certainly so during the jewel heist and its tragic aftermath. Le cercle rouge is about Paris, loyalty, and evil so bone-deep it is scarcely recognized as such by the one toting it: Le Commissaire Mattei, who believes he is simply doing his job in […]
Daily Archives: September 22, 2007
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. This is a different list than the 100 Greatest English-Language Films one, although a few entries overlap. — Dennis Charles Chaplin’s The Gold Rush, about the 1898 […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. This is a different list than the 100 Greatest English-Language Films one, although a few entries overlap. — Dennis For whatever reason(s), Krzysztof Zanussi has participated in […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. This is a different list than the 100 Greatest English-Language Films one, although a few entries overlap. — Dennis Only Godard has made more brilliant films than […]
One of the most imaginative and sensitive films about a boy’s growing awareness of his homosexuality, The Hanging Garden is sad, funny, by turns sweet and caustic, and ultimately triumphant. It focuses on an Irish-Canadian family living in coastal Nova Scotia; the patriarch’s pride and joy is his garden, which generates blossoms of one kind […]
Dennis Grunes 