Letterboxd — Your life in film

Reviews

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  The Grapes of Death 1978

  

  Monte Alderaan ★★★

  Rollin’s faithful retelling of Monsanto’s origin.

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  12 Angry Men 1957

  

  brotherdeacon ★★½ 2

  Ike and his 12 Disciples talking some inane jingoism and white male superiority. Rabid post-war American self-indulgence, defending a court system which now incarcerates more people than anywhere in the…

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  Os Lobos 1923

  

  brotherdeacon ★★★★½

  I've never seen a character in any film like Gardunho, played by the fiercely insane Joaquim Avelar, and that's merely a side note to this pantheistic stew of hormones and…

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  Out 1 1971

  

  Lencho of the Apes ★★★★ 11

  It's got a gun and it's got a girl, so it's cinema. I think the only thing I can do right now is transcribe the notes I made to myself…

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  Kafr Kassem 1975

  

  kanafani ★★★½

  Ibrahim Abdalhadi Himad Isaa, 35
  Abed Muhammad Abdalhadi Isaa, 9
  Abdallah Ahmad Himad Isaa, 15
  Talal Shaker Abdallah Isaa, 8
  Abdallah Sliman Isaa, 90
  Ahmad Muhammad Sous Freij, 35
  Ali…

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  Peasant Symphony 1944

  

  brotherdeacon ★★★★ 2

  It's cinema ethnography created during the dangers of the war years (1944), yet Henri Storck and Maurice Delattre's film is still as sturdy/pulsing in contemporary viewing as the Brabant fields,…

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  Noroît 1976

  

  Neil Bahadur ★★★★★ 2

  An achievement unlike any other in cinema - in the process of watching it one wants to compare it to Duelle: where that film was in dialectic with cinema history,…

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  God's Comedy 1995

  

  M_Penalosa ★★★★½ 4

  All you need to make a movie is a Portuguese girl. Fuck the gun.