Movies
Mystic River
Jimmy, Sean and Dave are typical kids in a Boston neighbourhood, playing street hockey and causing mischief, when two strangers posing as cops abduct Dave right before their eyes and their world is turned upside down.
Fast forward a number of years and a dark tale of secrets emerges as Sean, a police detective, trys to solve [...]
The Passenger
Michelangelo Antonioni, the Italian film director who directed L’Avventura, Blow-Up, Zabriskie Point and The Passenger, died at home on Monday July 31, 2007 at the age of 94. I took one of his classics “The Passenger” from our library DVD collection to watch again after so many years. Antonioni says about this film “I consider [...]
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For those of us who are concerned about global warming and climate change, this film is a must see. It confirms all that we observe happening around us and reaffirms all we are doing to make changes in our personal habits are having a positive effect.
If you are not convinced about the disasterous environmental changes [...]
The Seventh Seal
Often held to be Bergman’s masterpiece, The Seventh Seal (1957), unfolds the journey of a medieval knight (Max von Sydow) across a plague-ridden landscape. Its best-known scene features the knight playing chess with the personification of Death, his life resting on the outcome of the game. Set in medieval Sweden after the crusades, Bergman takes [...]
Fanny and Alexander
Fanny and Alexander is the story of two children belonging to a wealthy, extensive theatrical family in provincial Sweden in the early 20th century: 10 year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve) and his younger sister, Fanny (Pernilla Alwin). When their father dies unexpectedly during a stage performance and their mother decides to remarry, children are forced [...]
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