THE MOVIE
BALCONY
REVIEW & ANALYSIS
FILM FILINGS 9-30-23
In this Film Filings: An update about “Raymar”; Witty Writes About Nigel Kneale; Poss on Disney’s ‘Locomotive’; Stephens on Branagh’s ‘Henry’; Gilmore: A Peck On the Cheek, The Grey Zone, and Boyhood.
FILM FILINGS 8-18-23
In this edition of Film Filings: Oppenheimer, Unforgiven, Lawrence of Arabia, Night of the Hunter, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, and Kes.
Robert Bresson’s Au Hasard Balthazar
Roger Ebert called the film Bresson’s “finest prayer." Other Bresson films have been more dramatic, more exciting and more viscerally involving—for me, personally, A Man Escaped—but none more spiritually. Balthazar stands apart in its moral and spiritual rigor.