88 minutes Director: Roko Belic Producer: Roko Belic, Adrian Belic Filmmaker Roko Belic follows Paul Pena; a blind, accomplished guitarist into the heartlands of Tuva to seek out and compete in the triennial throatsinging festival there. If this wasn’t endearing / surreal enough, the back-story sounds like something out of ‘Amélie’ (2001); Pena stumbles ...
155 minutes Director: Milos Forman Producer: Dino De Laurentiis Cinematographer: Miroslav Ondricek You’d have to be a crazed buffoon not to be familiar with ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ or ‘Amadeus’. Both ...
126 minutes Dir: Roland Joffé Producer: Fernando Ghia, David Puttnam Cinematography: Chris Menges Quite often you can tell a lot by the opening scene in any movie. A terrible opening scene… means generally a terrible movie. In the opening scene to ‘The Mission’ you are treated to perhaps one of the most breathtaking visual metaphors ...
95 minutes Dir: F.W. Murnau Producer: William Fox Cinematography: Karl Struss, Charles Rosher This is the one that perhaps should be called sunset. The backstory to this is the director, F.W. Murnau, a leading proponent of the German Expressionism movement, was lured to ...
