Nouvelle Vague (1990) is not a cinematic treatment of the Young Turks breaking new ground in the sixties but a film about the history of cinema told as a biblical allegory. Old and New Testament; Old and New Wave; the studio system and the post-studio era; Delon as Roger and Richard Lennox who fall in …
“L’eclisse” is the third film in Michelangelo Antonioni’s so-called “Trilogy of Alienation,” the preceding works having been “L’avventura” and “La notte.” While the three films taken together do explore many of the same themes relating to spiritual emptiness, the disbanding of relationships, and a struggle to communicate in an increasingly modern and alienating world, “L’eclisse” differs from the two earlier works most notably in its increasingly experimental style and its blatant departures from conventional storytelling and stylistic design.
Because if you’re going to remake Jean-Pierre Melville, you’d better tap the handler of Orphan and Unknown. Director Jaume Collet-Serra is apparently onboard to helm a new iteration of Melville’s classic crime flick Le Cercle Rouge (‘The Red Circle’) after having been previously attached to more interesting folk (John Hillcoat, Johnnie To). The original, available …