| |  In This Issue:November 2010What's New on DVDI Am Love (2010)Drama/Foreign/Romance. Brainy/Intense/Scenic. Color. 120 mins. Rated R. Directed By Luca Guadagnino. Starring Flavio Parenti, Eduardo Gabriellini and Tilda Swinton. Visually sumptuous film stimulates all the senses as its tale of forbidden romance and simmering family dysfunction unfolds. Swinton, a Brit who speaks Italian and Russian throughout, gives a ... Read More > | |  |
It Might Get Loud (2008)Documentary/Musicals. Offbeat/Tuneful. Color. 98 mins. Rated PG. Directed By Davis Guggenheim. Starring Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White. Rock 'n' rollers, rejoice! Academy Award-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim's follow-up to An Inconvenient Truth is a penetrating documentary of ideas, featuring killer musical performances. ... Read More > | |  |
Louis Bluie (1985)Documentary. Moving/Offbeat/Tuneful. Color. 60 mins. Unrated. Directed By Terry Zwigoff. Starring Howard Armstrong and Ted Bogan. Terry Zwigoff's first film establishes his focus on quirky underdogs operating on the fringes that he'd expand on in later films like Crumb and Ghost World. Louie Bluie provides a frank and funny ... Read More > | |  |
Mayerling (1936)Foreign/Romance. Intense/Moving/Scenic. Black & White. 91 mins. Unrated. Directed By Anatole Litvak. Starring Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux. Under Anatole Litvak's expert direction, doomed love on film has rarely been captured to more heartbreaking effect, as a mood of tension and dread builds gradually, almost imperceptibly. All these ... Read More > | |  |
The City of No Limits (2003)Drama/Foreign/Mystery/Suspense. Brainy/Intense/Moving. Color. 125 mins. Unrated. Directed By Antonio Hernandez. Starring Leonardo Sbaraglia, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Geraldine Chaplin and Ana Fernandez. "The City of No Limits delivers a dense psychological drama with enough secrets, lies and hidden passions to keep mystery fans glued to the screen. Director Hernández expertly maintains the forward ... Read More > | |  |
The Italian Straw Hat (1928)Comedy/Silents. Farr-cical/Witty. Black & White. 105 mins. Unrated. Directed By Rene Clair. Starring Albert Prejean, Yvonneck, Vital Geymond and Olga Tschekowa. Filmmaker Rene Clair's forgotten classic is a must for fans of silent comedy. This inventive, delightful romp derives so many complications from a simple scenario that your head nearly spins trying ... Read More > | |  |
The Square (2008)Mystery/Suspense. Blood-curdling/Intense/Spine-tingling. Color. 106 mins. Rated R. Directed By Nash Edgerton. Starring David Roberts, Joel Edgerton and Claire van der Boom. Few films are worthy of mention alongside the Coen brothers' legendary debut, Blood Simple, but this tight, edgy thriller earns that comparison. This multiple Australian Film Institute Award-nominee ... Read More > | |  |
The Window (2009)Drama/Foreign. Moving/Scenic/Wholesome. Color. 77 mins. Unrated. Directed By Carlos Sorin. Starring Antonio Larreta, Jorge Diez, Maria del Carmen Jimenez and Emilse Roldán. Argentinean filmmaker Carlos Sorin (Bombon El Perro) again proves his ability to find the poetry and humanity in even the smallest of stories. This wistful little film uses a walk in the countryside ... Read More > | |  |
Theme of the Month: Veteran's Day: Americans at War
On November 11th, we honor America's veterans of war. The following list of movies provides a cinematic survey of our country in conflict since the American Revolution. Please join us in thanking our veterans over the centuries who have sacrificed so much to keep our country free and safe.
All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)War/Westerns. Brainy/Moving. Black & White. 133 mins. Unrated. Directed By Lewis Milestone. Starring Lew Ayres. Still potent stuff eighty years after its release, Lewis Milestone's "All Quiet" portrays the genuine panic and bewilderment of enlisted soldiers at the front of "the war to end all wars". This ... Read More > | |  |
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)Drama. Wholesome/Scenic. Color. 103 mins. Unrated. Directed By John Ford. Starring Henry Fonda, John Carradine and Claudette Colbert. Director Ford's first color film is beautiful to behold, depicting the perilous plight of early Americans in revolutionary days. Both Fonda and Colbert shine, as does Edna May Oliver in an ... Read More > | |  |
Glory (1989)War/Westerns. Intense/Moving. Color. 118 mins. Rated R. Directed By Edward Zwick. Starring Denzel Washington, Matthew Broderick and Morgan Freeman. Edward Zwick's vivid Civil War epic boasts terrific battle sequences, but aside from the story's inherent fascination, what sets this movie apart are the incredible performances glimpsed in between ... Read More > | |  |
Platoon (1986)Drama/War/Westerns. Intense/Spine-tingling. Color. 120 mins. Rated R. Directed By Oliver Stone. Starring Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen and Tom Berenger. Oliver Stone's angry, political take on Vietnam serves as a corrective to sterilized movie visions of war. Just as "Platoon" never shies away from showing the horror of combat, it critiques all ... Read More > | |  |
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1955)Romance/War/Westerns. Moving/Scenic. Color. 103 mins. Unrated. Directed By Mark Robson. Starring Mickey Rooney, Fredric March, William Holden and Grace Kelly. Mark Robson's handsome film is equal parts war movie and romance, with gorgeous Technicolor and an A-list cast. Holden is terrific as Harry, and his love scenes with Kelly pack real heat (the on-set ... Read More > | |  |
The Hurt Locker (2009)Action/Adventure/War/Westerns. Intense/Spine-tingling. Color. 131 mins. Rated R. Directed By Kathryn Bigelow. Starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Brian Geraghty. A tense, visceral, and technically accomplished action film, Bigelow's "Hurt Locker" is a nail biter based on the experiences of embedded journalist Mark Boal. Both a heart-racing, incredibly ... Read More > | |  |
The Last of the Mohicans (1992)Action/Adventure. Fast-paced/Moving/Scenic. Color. 114 mins. Rated R. Directed By Michael Mann. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe. With director Mann setting a rapid pace for the story, the movie, equal parts action and romance, takes hold of the audience and never lets go. The always intense Day-Lewis makes a riveting, ... Read More > | |  |
The Longest Day (1962)Family/War/Westerns. Intense/Fast-paced. Black & White. 178 mins. Rated G. Directed By Bernhard Wicki. Starring John Wayne and Henry Fonda. In 1962, legendary producer Zanuck spared no expense in bringing this long but gripping recounting of the D-Day Allied invasion to the big screen. This epic excels for its innovative camerawork and ... Read More > | |  |
Spotlight
• John screens "Midnight" at the Bedford Free Library's Evening of Film and Discussion on Thursday, November 4th at 7 pm. To purchase tickets, call (914) 234-3570.
• Look for November's issue of Quest Magazine where John writes about "Movies with a Wasp's Sting."
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