Letterboxd — Your life in film

Reviews

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  Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion 1972

  

  saramangalho ★★★★½ 2

  Proof that you can make a great film using mostly Meiko Kaji's death stare. How could them guards laugh at those eyes? I'd run crazy fast. But for real, this…

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  High Society 1956

  

  Jonathan White ★★★★ 4

  The Philadelphia Story is plain and simple the better film. Let’s get that straight right off the top. Bing ain’t no Cary, Frank no Jimmy, and although the Princess has…

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  The Whispering Star 2015

  

  Jonathan White ★★★★★ 27

  TIFF 2015 – Film #20

  Reason for pick – interesting premise as spotted in the TIFF description.

  More akin to a tone poem or a Haiku than a narrative driven…

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  Jauja 2014

  

  Grillo ★★★★½ 2

  Something true about watching this kind of cinema, that despite an audiences search for answers what ever really gets fleshed out are the questions, a film is not a dream…

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  La Sapienza 2014

  

  Rakestraw ★★★½

  At once a history lesson via travelogue and a relationship drama of sorts, Eugène Green’s latest film, La Sapienza, oscillates between scholarly discourses on the subject of Roman Baroque architecture…

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  My Pretend Girlfriend 2014

  

  Patryk Czekaj ★★★½

  Known for his great contributions to the world of Japanese commercials, Yakumo Saiji has finally decided to venture into feature-length filmmaking, and for the world premiere of his debut, he…

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  Caged 1950

  

  A. Glass ★★★★★

  The first WIP movie may be the best. Honestly, it's not a very good genre. There are some high points, but more than often it's a pretty shitty way to…

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  Caged 1950

  

  Silversaxophone ★★★★

  Warners in no-holds-barred social reformist mode while not missing a trick in exploiting the melodrama. John Cromwell portrays the horror behind a system designed to objectify and dehumanise its subjects…