Since its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last January, “Beasts of the Southern Wild” has been getting good reviews and enthusiastic responses everywhere. Distributed by Fox Searchlight Pictures, the first feature film by Benh Zeitling (30) is an unusual mix of fantasy and down-to-earth description of a bayou-like community living in a fictional island. …Continue Reading
Until now, British filmmaker Ridley Scott had just made two sci-fi films, ‘Alien’ (1979) and ‘Blade Runner’ (1982), but both stand as genre-defining movies. This will not be the case of ‘Prometheus’, which is set some decades before the events seen in ‘Alien’. In this case, the story centers on a space expedition that arrives …Continue Reading
Despite some old-fashioned effects and costumes, this 1951 movie directed by Robert Wise stands the test of time.Shot in black and white, the film follows the arrival of an extraterrestrial flying saucer to earth, carrying a human-like alien named Klaatu (Michael Rennie) and a powerful robot, Gort. The flying saucer lands in Washington DC, with …Continue Reading
When writing about David Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method’, which centres on the relationship between Ernst Jung, Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein, I discovered this forgotten movie by great filmmaker John Huston, who directed widely acclaimed films such as ‘The Maltese Falcon’ (1941) and ‘The African Queen’ (1951). Made in 1962 and shot in black and …Continue Reading
The new film by Canadian director David Cronenberg (The Fly, Eastern Promises) focuses on a relatively unknown aspect of the relationship between Psychiatrist Carl Jung and his former mentor Sigmund Freud, in the early twentieth century: the important role a woman named Sabina Spielrein played in their involvement and ideas. Sabina Spielrein, a Jewish Russian …Continue Reading
