Låt den rätte komma in is a creepy, dark, depressed Swedish film about two lonely twelve-year-olds, one of whom is a bullied schoolboy, the other a vampire who tells him, “I’ve been 12 for a long time.” The silly script, by John Ajvide Lindqvist from his own novel, was directed with an excess of style […]
Daily Archives: March 18, 2009
In 1920, Dutch workers embarked on a massive project of reclaiming fertile land from the sea, draining it for agricultural use, and closing off the Zuiderzee, an inlet of the North Sea, to prevent flooding. Largely fashioned from his own material, Joris Ivens created Nieuwe gronden, a hymn to both humanity’s struggle against Nature and […]
I was wrong in thinking that Herr Tartüff (1925) was Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s only comedy. Murnau had already made Die Finanzen des Großherzogs; and while it isn’t as brilliant as Herr Tartüff—the difference in quality may be Molière—it also marks Murnau as a wonderful maker of silent comedy, however difficult that may be to process. […]
Dennis Grunes 