Soviet times are often demonized in the West, even a small collection of words in her favor straps in for a ride of a particularly colorful dose of anti-communism. Well regardless of which political stance you take, there is one horror any common person worth a damn could unify under and that’s war, and all the ugly beasts it unleashed. Come and See was a … Continue reading The horrors of war in Come and See (1985)
Beatdown streets of Memphis, a love letter to Elvis Pressley, and the specter of the stories he left behind. Jim Jarmusch’s 1989 flick Mystery Train is a snapshot of Americana, at its grimy glory. The journey begins at the sideview of a teenaged couple from Yokohama sitting across each other as the noise of the train tracks greet the viewer’s ear. Leather jackets and well cared … Continue reading Midnight Train 1989: Ode to Youth
The many masks of love and lust and how interchangeable they really are. At the core of this grand piece of film lays a fundamental question, who is the hunter and who is the hunted? Luis Bunuel’s ‘That Obscure Object of Desire’ was an adaption of the 1898 novel The Woman and the Puppet. Widely considered one of the greatest swansongs of cinema. As a … Continue reading Cinema Chronicles: That Obscure Object of Desire
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