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Three Colors: White (1994)
Filmmaker(s): Krzysztof Kieślowski

Polish immigrant Karol Karol finds himself out of a marriage, a job and a country when his French wife, Dominique, divorces him after six months due to his impotence. Forced to leave France after losing the business they jointly owned, Karol enlists fellow Polish expatriate Mikołaj to smuggle him back to their homeland.

Parallel Conditionals trilogy is usually explained, even by him, in trivial terms, this being the "equality" segment. But this is an intelligent filmmaker, one of the type who actually thinks about the narrative stance of his projects. In this case, we have "Blue" which follows...


Published December 4, 2024
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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)
A man talking sense to himself is no madder than a man talking nonsense not to himself.
Filmmaker(s): Tom Stoppard

Two minor characters from the play "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.

The Play Without the Play an architect, I am often asked what is the world's best building. The answer: a small chapel outside Barcelona started by Gaudi but never finished. We have the model (a bunch of strings) and the basement. But when one visits,...


Published December 9, 2024
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The Singing Detective (1986)
Filmmaker(s): Guy Hamilton

Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.

Boundaries, Skin, Akroyd have been without a TeeVee for thirty years. It is a standing challenge to my friends to show me something that is produced for TeeVee that does less harm than good in working with the viewer's mind. I finally have it here. Lynch's...


Published December 9, 2024
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Ran (1985)
In a mad world, only the mad are sane.
Filmmaker(s): Akira Kurosawa

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic in scope, the film is Kurosawa's late-life masterpiece, a profound examination of the folly of war and the crumbling of one family under the weight of betrayal, greed, and the insatiable thirst for power.

Noh Lear This is Noh Lear This is Noh Lear a wonderfully varied medium film can be! Here we have a film that is both truly great and in a different way a clumsy mistake. By now you know that this was made by a master...


Published December 9, 2024
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Blade Runner (1982)
Man has made his match...now it's his problem.
Filmmaker(s): Ridley Scott

In the smog-choked dystopian Los Angeles of 2019, blade runner Rick Deckard is called out of retirement to terminate a quartet of replicants who have escaped to Earth seeking their creator for a way to extend their short life spans.

Offworld Truth the mid-seventies, I exchanged a few letters with Phil Dick, who had then dropped his obsession with parallel, valid visions and had developed a similar obsession with created realities. This concern maps well to the wave of film theory that was sweeping the...


Published December 9, 2024
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The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1981)
She was lost from the moment she saw him.
Filmmaker(s): Karel Reisz

In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective characters, Sarah and Charles. Both actors are involved in serious relationships, but the passionate nature of the script leads to an off-camera love affair as well. While attempting to maintain their composure and professionalism, Anna and Mike struggle to come to terms with their infidelity.

Narrative Folding environments, two of the century's greatest film actors, one of the half-dozen or so best modern playwrights and Fowles' experiment in parallel narratives. Fowles' work was pale compared to Nabokov's "Pale Fire," for instance in building a convoluted, layered narrative, but is comparable...


Published December 9, 2024
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Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Extraordinary! Hypnotic! Beautiful! Masterful!
Filmmaker(s): Alain Resnais

In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.

Annotated Image -- Constructed Memory of the most influential films ever made, and must be seen on that basis. You create your own life by collecting Borgean memories and adding pieces from this film will greatly enrich your viewing of later, safer films along the...


Published December 9, 2024
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The Limey (1999)
Tell them I'm coming
Filmmaker(s): Steven Soderbergh

The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.

Proustian Out and Back deserves respect, as much for his failures (‘Brokovich,’’Traffic') as his successes (this, ‘Sight,’’Videotape'). When he experiments, it is with simultaneous layers of different kinds involving the eye, the mind, time, remembrance. Here he works on small, intimate layers, small visions of the...


Published December 9, 2024
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The Saragossa Manuscript (1965)
Filmmaker(s): Wojciech Jerzy Has

During the Napoleonic wars, a Spanish officer and an opposing officer find a book written by the former's grandfather.

Geometric Cosmology now, you already know that this is a collection of stories and what makes it novel is the relationship among those stories. Many stories have stories within them. Many stories are mirrored. Characters and sets in one story appear in another, sometimes in...


Published December 9, 2024
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My Brilliant Career (1979)
Filmmaker(s): Gillian Armstrong

A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.

Transucent Space, Layered Face a life in film brings an experience like this. Its oddly tense in some dimensions and relaxed in others and the balance between the two seems distinctly Australian. I hadn't seen this when it was new, and I'm glad. Seeing a...


Published December 9, 2024
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