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Winter's Bone

#52FilmsByWomen A few long weekends and a full week off gave me plenty of – one could argue too much […]

Film

52 Films By Women – April 2016

  • 52 Films By Women
  • Agnès Varda
  • Debra Granik
  • Diana Cardozo
  • Documenteur
  • Dorothy Arzner
  • Film
  • Ida Lupino
  • Le Lion Volatil
  • Leni Riefenstahl
  • Lotte Reiniger
  • Manuela Jankovic's War
  • Merrily We Go to Hell
  • Outrage
  • The Vanishing Lion
  • Triumph of the Will
  • Winter's Bone
by Bas van Stratum
Published May 1, 2016
Film Noir

Film Noir Disregarding the many complaints of my SEO-plug-in that I should rename my post tags and such, I’m writing […]

Film

Film Noir – D. Jud Jones and Risto Topaloski – …

  • 2007
  • Animation
  • Crime
  • D. Jud Jones
  • English
  • Film
  • Film Noir
  • Mystery
  • Neo Noir
  • Review
  • Risto Topaloski
by Bas van Stratum
Published April 10, 2016
The Dressmaker

#52FilmsByWomen It’s April now and that means another month of watching female directed films has passed. Four films every month […]

Film

52 Films By Women – March 2016

  • 52 Films By Women
  • Agnès Varda
  • Catherine Corsini
  • Dominga Sotomayor Castillo
  • Dorothy Davenport
  • Du côté de la côte
  • Film
  • Jocelyn Moorhouse
  • Kathryn Bigelow
  • Lynne Littman
  • Summertime
  • Testament
  • The Dressmaker
  • The Hurt Locker
  • The Woman Condemned
  • Thursday Till Sunday
by Bas van Stratum
Published April 1, 2016
Victoria

Victoria Earlier this year I saw Russian Ark. It’s a beautiful film shot in one single take inside the Winter […]

Film

Victoria – Sebastian Schipper – 2015

  • 2015
  • Crime
  • Drama
  • Film
  • German
  • Laia Costa
  • Review
  • Sebastian Schipper
  • Thriller
  • Victoria
by Bas van Stratum
Published March 13, 2016
Cinderella

#52FilmsByWomen February is over and #52FilmsByWomen continues. But admittedly I have been slacking a bit. Even though there’s one more […]

Film

52 Films By Women – February 2016

  • 52 Films By Women
  • Film
  • Ida Lupino
  • Indie Game: The Movie
  • Lisanne Pajot
  • Lotte Reiniger
  • The Bigamist
by Bas van Stratum
Published March 1, 2016
And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None. One of the best whodunnits of all time, with a nice cast and a killer story.

Film

And Then There Were None – René Clair – 1945

  • 1945
  • Agatha Christie
  • And Then There Were None
  • Barry Fitzgerald
  • Crime
  • English
  • Film
  • June Duprez
  • Mystery
  • René Clair
  • Review
  • Ten Little Indians
  • Walter Huston
  • Whodunnit
by Bas van Stratum
Published February 19, 2016
Wings

#52FilmsByWomen So #52FilmsByWomen is kind of a thing these days, and I approve. Instead of whining about #OscarsSoWhite or other […]

Film

52 Films By Women – January 2016

  • 52 Films By Women
  • At Land
  • Larisa Shepitko
  • Longing for the Rain
  • Maya Deren
  • Three Cases of Murder
  • Tian-yi Yang
  • Wendy Toye
  • Wings
by Bas van Stratum
Published February 3, 2016
Theeb

Theeb is a thriller and the first ever Jordanian film to be Oscar nominated. It's about the coming-of-age of a young boy, Theeb, in the Jordanian desert during the first World War.

Film

Theeb – Naji Abu Nowar – 2014

  • 2014
  • Arabic
  • Drama
  • Film
  • Naji Abu Nowar
  • Review
  • Theeb
  • Thriller
by Bas van Stratum
Published January 29, 2016
The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey can rightfully be labeled as a hidden treasure of film. In a crazy journey a boy guides a party to save his village from death.

Film

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey – Vincent Ward – 1988

  • 1988
  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • English
  • Fantasy
  • Film
  • Mystery
  • Review
  • The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
  • Vincent Ward
by Bas van Stratum
Published January 25, 2016
Russian Ark

Russian Ark takes its viewers on a mysterious 90-ish minute journey through roughly 300 years of Russian history. Russian Ark is shot in one single take.

Film

Russian Ark – Aleksandr Sokurov – 2002

  • 2002
  • Aleksandr Sokurov
  • Fantasy
  • Film
  • History
  • Mystery
  • Review
  • Russian
  • Russian Ark
  • Sergey Dreyden
by Bas van Stratum
Published January 11, 2016
The Adventures of Prince Achmed

The Adventures of Prince Achmed is the earliest surviving animated feature film in existence. It was made by German animator and director Lotte Reiniger in 1926.

Film

The Adventures of Prince Achmed – Lotte Reiniger – 1926

  • 1926
  • Adventure
  • Animation
  • Film
  • German
  • Lotte Reiniger
  • Review
  • Romance
  • Silent Film
  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed
by Bas van Stratum
Published January 1, 2016

Ten not-so-well-known or downright obscure films that should be on your watch list as of right now. The Film Top 10 – 2015!

Film

Film Top 10 – 2015

  • 2015
  • A Man Escaped
  • Cria cuervos
  • Cries and Whispers
  • Film
  • Kuroneko
  • Pather Panchali
  • Raise the Red Lantern
  • Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
  • Song of the Sea
  • Sullivan's Travels
  • Tokyo Story
  • Top 10
  • Yearning
by Bas van Stratum
Published December 12, 2015

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In Switzerland they had brotherly love – and 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

— Harry Lime, The Third Man (1949)

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