Archive for Category: "Recommended"
Rewind of the Month
Another look at Ernst Lubitsch’s Design for Living. The pre-Code comedy, adapted by Ben Hecht from a play by Noël Coward, stars Gary Cooper, Frederic March and Miriam Hopkins as a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult “gentlemen’s agreement.”
Rewind of the Month
Another look at Incendies, the Academy Award-nominated foreign film about family secrets and sectarian conflict. Directed by Denis Villenueve, with Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin and Maxim Gaudette.
Rewind of the Month
Another look at director Oliver Assayas’ bio-epic Carlos, about the life and career of the notorious terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal. The three-part miniseries, originally made for French television and adapted for the big-screen, is available on the Criterion Collection. With Edgar Ramierz, Juana Acosta, Alexander Scheer, Nora von Waldstätten, Ahmad Kaabour, Christoph Bach.
Rewind of the Month
Another look at the 1956 version of The Ten Commandments, which Paramount Home Entertainment recently released on Blu-ray as part of a six-disc limited edition gift set. The great Cecil B. DeMille’s last film, The Ten Commandments tells the story of how Moses (Charlton Heston) led the Hebrews out of bondage. The biblical epic also stars Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter and Edward G. Robinson.
Rewind of the Month
Another look at Vision, the 2009 religious drama about the life of Hildegard von Bingen, a 12th-century Benedictine nun and renaissance woman, hundreds of years before the invention of that concept. The film, in German with English subtitles, was written and directed by Margarethe von Trotta. With Barbara Sukowa, Heino Ferch and Hannah Herzsprung.
