Tokyo Sonata

That the director of Tokyo Sonata , Kiyoshi Kurosawa, is primarily known for his contributions to J-horror seems fitting. Despite the lack o...

Crazy Heart

Crazy Heart deserves credit for nabbing Jeff Bridges the most awards buzz he's ever gotten. Few actors can hold a candle to Bridges, pa...

Pierrot le fou

When I brought up the musique concrète structuring of the soundtrack in A Woman is a Woman , my mind naturally wandered to the likes of Egar...

Alphaville

Alphaville reminds me of another French film I recently viewed, Arnaud Desplechin's A Christmas Tale , in that, while it fails to live ...

Raging Bull

Raging Bull is one of the great character studies of the cinema. I have seen it derided as an inaccurate depiction of boxing technique by t...

Une Femme Mariée

More so even than Les Carabiniers , which at holds holds the distinction of being so unlike the rest of Jean-Luc Godard's '60s outpu...

Band of Outsiders

Godard pushed his luck when he cast Fritz Lang, an established master, as his avatar in Contempt , but he more or less chucks modesty out th...