Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Yet another in our Eric Rohmer fest. I think this might be my favourite of them so far. A guy follows a couple around Paris because the man is the (married) ex of his girlfriend, and he wants to know what the man — presumed to be the titular flier — is doing with the woman he's with (is she the titular spouse?), when he's supposed to have left the city.
Daft but fun, as usual.
I'm joining an outing of my writing group to see part 2 at the BFI IMAX next month, so I thought I'd better watch the first one.
It's decades since I read the book, and not much less since I saw the David Lynch version, but I think I know the story too well (even though I don't remember it that well). Because I found this mostly kind of slow.
Certainly at first. It's well done, of course. The effects,…
I wouldn’t have expected that a film about someone fighting an evil corporation that is poisoning people could be so feelgood. But this achieves it.
Not dissimilar in themes to the various A Star is Born instances we've been watching, in that it's partly about fame and performance.
A successful stage actor is not-quite-stalked by a fan, the titular Eve, who then becomes her personal assistant, and gradually moves almost to replace her.
Which makes Eve sounds more sinister than she comes across in the film.
And despite the title, it's really more about Margo than it is about Eve.