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  • About Elly: How mundanity turns into a nightmare

    About Elly: How mundanity turns into a nightmare

    Scary season is upon us, that time of the year when people enjoy being spooked by their favorite movies. Personally, this time around I decided to revisit a film that stopped me in my tracks after first viewing it. It gave me chills despite being a regular drama about regular people. Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly […]

    Andy Mattioli

    October 31, 2021
    Drama, Foreign
    About Elly, Asghar Farhadi, Cinema, Drama, Film
  • Affliction: Paul Schrader and the violence we inherit

    Affliction: Paul Schrader and the violence we inherit

    Paul Schrader, the man who’s been fighting the Hollywood system ever since he got his hands on a pen and paper and wrote Taxi Driver to chronicle his own experience as a depressed and lonely cab driver, is now entering a new phase in his life following the success of 2017’s First Reformed and the […]

    Andy Mattioli

    September 24, 2021
    Dark, Drama, Family
    90s, Drama, Film, Nick Nolte, Schrader
  • The Passenger: Jack Nicholson and Michelangelo Antonioni have an identity crisis

    The Passenger: Jack Nicholson and Michelangelo Antonioni have an identity crisis

    Throughout the 70s and 80s, several Hollywood stars collaborated on projects with some of cinema’s biggest auteurs. Most notably, the likes of Robert De Niro – who, fresh off an Oscar win for Raging Bull, decided to fly out to Rome and work with Sergio Leone (who at that point hadn’t directed a movie in […]

    Andy Mattioli

    August 16, 2021
    Art, Arthouse, Drama, Film, Foreign
    1970s, Drama, Film, Jack Nicholson, Michelangelo Antonioni
  • You Were Never Really Here: The Cinema of Lynne Ramsay

    You Were Never Really Here: The Cinema of Lynne Ramsay

    If there is one director who knows how to tell difficult and heartbreaking stories by simply hinting at the dramatic beats through the use of moving images, it’s Lynne Ramsay. The Scottish filmmaker spent a good portion of the 21st century telling stories of human struggle and existential angst while simultaneously filling the current cinematic […]

    Andy Mattioli

    July 19, 2021
    Crime, Director, Drama
    Drama, Film, Joaquin Phoenix, Lynne Ramsay, Thriller
  • A Most Wanted Man: Capturing the Hopelessness of Espionage

    A Most Wanted Man: Capturing the Hopelessness of Espionage

    When we lost Philip Seymour Hoffman, we lost a man who knew how to be human in front of a camera. A man who knew exactly how to give a complete and detailed account of the human condition. His characters never dared to fall into the trap of clichés, never felt diminished by a bad […]

    Andy Mattioli

    June 27, 2021
    Actor, Drama, Thriller
    Drama, Film, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Thriller
  • High Noon: Why We Need Unconventional Heroes

    High Noon: Why We Need Unconventional Heroes

    There are movies that make history, and then there are movies that are history. Over the last century, few movies have reflected the era they were made in as vividly as Fred Zinnemann’s High Noon did back in 1952. Upon its initial release, the seemingly simple story of a small town sheriff having to confront […]

    Andy Mattioli

    May 18, 2021
    Drama, Hollywood, Western
    1950s, Drama, Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, High Noon, Hollywood, Western
  • Midnight Run: The Art of Buddy Comedy

    Midnight Run: The Art of Buddy Comedy

    What happens when you get an award-winning method actor in De Niro, a timid comedian in Charles Grodin, a young up-and-coming director in Martin Brest and tell them, Go out there and make a really good comedy about a bounty hunter going through a mid-life crisis while chasing a white collar criminal? Well, what happens […]

    Andy Mattioli

    April 3, 2021
    Action, Actor, Comedy
    1980s, 80s, Buddy Comedy, Comedy, De Niro, Film, Midnight Run, Movies
  • Dirty Harry: The Doomed Protagonist

    Dirty Harry: The Doomed Protagonist

    In 1971 a young Clint Eastwood and veteran director Don Siegel collaborated on three occasions, including Play Misty for Me – Eastwood’s directorial debut (featuring a brief and rare acting cameo by Siegel) – The Beguiled – a Southern gothic thriller set in the American Civil War – and Dirty Harry – the story of […]

    Andy Mattioli

    March 7, 2021
    Action, Actor, Crime, Drama
    1970s, Action, Clint Eastwood, Dirty Harry, Don Siegel, New Hollywood, Thriller
  • Street of Shame: Japan’s Answer to Italian Neorealism

    Street of Shame: Japan’s Answer to Italian Neorealism

    When Roberto Rossellini decided to direct a film about children and the Italian resistance movement in war-torn, Nazi-occupied Rome in 1945, nobody could have predicted the lasting impact on cinema and legacy of Rome Open City (1945). What Italian neorealism did was give a voice to those that did not have it. Its entire philosophy […]

    Andy Mattioli

    February 14, 2021
    Director, Drama, Japan
    1950s, Drama, Japan, Mizoguchi, Neorealism, Prostitution, War
  • Sound of Metal: Readjusting to Life

    Sound of Metal: Readjusting to Life

    The name of the game for the past year or so has been Adapt. As a society we’ve struggled with and still to this day we continue to learn the correct way of functioning amidst a global pandemic. Our habits have undergone drastic changes due to measures implemented to stop the spread of the virus. […]

    Andy Mattioli

    January 12, 2021
    Addiction, Drama, Film, Music
    2020, Addiction, Drama, Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci, Recovery, Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
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