Archive for the ‘Film’ Category

Le Grand Illusion

July 18, 2009 | In: Film

From the infamous french director Jean Renoir, grandson of the famous impressionist Auguste Renoir - the 1937 film Le Grand Illusion is an absolutely fantastic way to spend 1 hour and 54 minutes of your time. Wikipedia describes it as a 'masterpiece of...

The Battleship Potemkin

July 11, 2009 | In: Film

I just finished watching the 1925  silent film - Battleship Potemkin. Obviously an ambitious project at the time, the film dramatises the story of the 1905 mutiny on board the Potemkin and the subsequent uprising/massacre in the Russian sea port of...