Category: Classics & Hitchcock

There are precious few films that you can easily access upon first viewing, yet spend a lifetime trying in vain to truly understand. These speak to a universal human experience that changes with the individual. You are not the same person necessarily with each viewing, and as experience changes your perspective, so the film shifts…

A perfect examination of human nature, and Isabelle Huppert’s ass.

All men are guilty.

Hobson chooses to surrender his genitalia.

Jean-Pierre Melville’s immaculate game of chess.

A powerful historical film, as well as an allegory for any nation that grappled with a totalitarian past. Or flirts with one at present.

Luis Bunuel was obsessed with ritual and fetish, but he managed to harness them for his art; perhaps selecting embrace rather than denial is what saved him from self-destruction. Social conventions are part of the learned behaviors that members of a society use to relate to one another, but they can also become a languid…

Jean Gabin made a career out of playing damaged characters with good intentions, making him a natural for noir.

Sayid.