Category: jack fleischer

Sometimes a film takes a well tread idea and gets something new out of it. Pig isn’t that film. Requiring a certain level of plot ignorance in order to retain its effectiveness, let’s just say it’s a film about memory....

The biopic Lula, The Son of Brazil, is hard to review because it’s not just a movie. This film is propaganda, education, and entertainment all rolled up into 128 minutes of Technicolor bombast. I don’t know nearly enough about Brazilian...

Searching For Sonny is a quirky comedy wearing the oversized coat of a film noir. Don’t go into this film for the noir aspects – it’s more of an affectation than a refined storytelling technique, yet it seems appropriate for...

Bonsai is a film I’ve reviewed here before. The last time I saw it, I went on and on about how much it taught me about Chilean culture. Now I must confess that the reason I threw out such irrelevant...

Full Confession: I had no idea who Jean Grémillon was before agreeing to review During the Occupation. Now I know that Grémillon was a violinist turned director who worked from the ‘20s through to the end of the ‘50s. He...