We Can’t Go Home Again Directed by Nicholas Ray Screenplay by Nicholas Ray USA, 1976 After much commercial success in the 1950s with such great films as Rebel Without a Cause (James Dean, Natalie Wood, and Dennis Hopper) and Johnny Guitar (Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge), Nicholas Ray increasingly became shut out of Hollywood in …
Melancholia Directed by Lars Von Trier Written by Lars Von Trier 2011, Denmark Melancholia refers to a planet hidden behind the sun that is on a direct course for Earth, along with the crippling state of mentally ill Justine (Kirsten Dunst), whose case is so severe that she destroys her relationship with her groom during …
George Harrison:Living in the Material World Directed by Martin Scorsese USA, 2011 What a day, what a day. Rushing from Queens to Manhattan with only an hour to get going for a nine AM screening in the mist of rush hour, to many city dwellers may seem like the impossible. Topple that with three train …
Corpo Celeste Directed by Alice Rohrwacher Screenplay by Alice Rohrwacher Italy, 2011 Wrapping up the first day of our excursion to the Lincoln Center is the Italian drama, Corpo Celeste, a story of thirteen year old Marta who is struggling to resettle in a Calabria Catholic school from her native Switzerland. While undergoing her rite …