The death of a parent, the unspoken-of death of a child and the soon-to-be-avenged murder of a spouse stand uncontested in the lexicon of film deaths. All three offer clean, efficient endearment to a character but keep that tang of gossip about them. There is nothing to confuse an audience in the misguided struggle of [...]
Here’s another silent short from the archives: 2005’s Rabbit by Run Wrake, an illustrator and animator who works out of London. Rabbit is, in BananaWho’s opinion, Wrake’s most successful short film out of a body of very interesting work, but you, Dear Reader, are welcome to choose your own favorite here.
Sadly, the critically-condemned [...]
Here in America, we take Francois Truffaut’s title for granted, but “The 400 Blows” translated more accurately approximates the English phrase, “Raising Hell.” With this translation in mind, watch Fish Tank, the sophomore feature film from writer/director Andrea Arnold. Hers is a contemporary (read: feminine) homage to The 400 Blows that follows adolescent [...]
In a recent interview with Tin House magazine, the seasoned French novelist Amélie Nothomb shared her view that, “the biggest discovery in life is time.” While at its simplest, Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart is a story about getting sober, it is also about a man awakening to the discovery of time.
Jeff Bridges is Bad [...]