Category: Classics & Hitchcock

Sex should be truly democratic.

A decidedly off-balance historical character study, Becket concerns the friendship between Thomas Becket and King Henry II.

To borrow a phrase: “So very Ozu.”

There are precious few films that you can easily access upon first viewing, yet spend a lifetime trying in vain to truly understand. These speak to a universal human experience that changes with the individual. You are not the same person necessarily with each viewing, and as experience changes your perspective, so the film shifts…

A perfect examination of human nature, and Isabelle Huppert’s ass.

All men are guilty.

When Lee Marvin asks if you want two lumps with your coffee, he’s not talking about sugar.

Hobson chooses to surrender his genitalia.

Jean-Pierre Melville’s immaculate game of chess.

A powerful historical film, as well as an allegory for any nation that grappled with a totalitarian past. Or flirts with one at present.