FILM FILINGS 6-17-23
Film Filings: Doctor Zhivago; British Film Noir; El Norte; The Madness of the King George
FILM FILINGS 4-29-23
This edition of Film Filings contains reviews of two existential 1965 colonial adventures, a look at eleven Australian classics, one of Chaplin’s last, and meditation of the communal experience of theatre-going.
FILM FILINGS 3.6.23
This edition of Film Filings covers: a Jean Renoir theater experience at Nashville’s Belcourt Theater, my film-viewing habits of the last four months, an excursion in British Folk Horror with Christopher Witty in the U.K., Nathan Gilmore’s reviews of two European classics, and a peek at a cool film that is now in production!
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.