I’m so immersed in catching the best of contemporary cinema that sometimes it makes a refreshing change to take a fresh look at a classic movie. This week I caught the newly restored ‘LIMELIGHT’ released for the first time on HD Digital at the newly restored Miami Beach Cinematheque. Two treats in one. This is … Continue reading
The whole crux of this film is whether 8 French Trappist Monks should leave their Monastery, and all the villagers who depend upon them, when the lives are threatened by a group of Terrorists in the midst of a horrific bloody civil war. The time is 1996, and the setting is the Atlas Mountains in … Continue reading
Once upon a time a Made-For-TV-Movie was looked down on as an inferior product to any Movie shown in a Cinema: not the real thing. Nowadays that is simply not the case, and in the same words that the remarkable subject of this movie describes herself they are ‘different not less.’ I would venture to … Continue reading
This is unquestionable the most self-indulgent semi-autobiographical quirky comedy I have seen for years. And I liked it. I think. Aura has just graduated college in Ohio with a fairly useless degree and now that her boyfriend has dumped she goes back home to live with her successful artist mother and precocious younger sister in … Continue reading
Eun-yi a young divorcee leaves her low-paying job in a Noodle shop and the small scruffy apartment in which she shares a single bed with her best friend, to become the Maid to this stinking rich family who live in a stunning mansion outside the city. They whole place and the family reek of money, … Continue reading