I Hated Black And White Movies
Movie reviews from a film ignoramus turned fanatic.
Celebrating Women's Day, try to remember at least a dozen female directors. It's probably not going to be an easy task for most of us – injustice still happening today. If you want to make a change, then a poignant but rousing feature First Cow (2019) by Kelly Reichardt might be the right start. Be... Continue Reading →
The country is ravaged by plague, and the only thing left to do is challenging Death to a chess match. What film is more appropriate in the times of a pandemic than the one depicting a strategy against death? And when the Lamb had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space... Continue Reading →
Until Straight Story (1999), I never got David Lynch. I remember myself proclaiming: "Lynch CAN make a good movie, but he just doesn't want to." After watching that one, and I hope to write my thoughts on it soon, I watched The Elephant Man (1980), and I once again had the same thought. It took... Continue Reading →
Given an amateur student project, John Ford would have made it into an Academy-award winning feature. I was familiar with Ford's work, but to me he was always the western guy. When I first watched The Grapes of Wrath (1940), I realized what an incredible director he was. Anyone can realize they're watching a Ford... Continue Reading →
In my early twenties, the thought of watching a black and white film was already devastating, but watching a silent black and white film seemed like, well, it’ll be a cold day in hell before I do that. Turns out, with the apocalypse and everything around us, that might be the case. I watch my... Continue Reading →
I Hated Black And White Movies 