Le Trou hits hard. A French masterpiece and an authentic, gritty prison escape movie that’s The Shawshank Redemption’s granddaddy. Le Trou is directed by Jacques Becker, an influential director to the French New Wave directors but still remains underrated in the spectrum of well-known foreign filmmakers. Le Trou, his final film is a masterpiece beyond […]
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Blue Velvet is the legendary David Lynch’s suburban nightmare. A twisted neo-noir with unforgettable imagery Blue Velvet starts in an ordinary, American suburban town where a man working on his lawn, suddenly has a heart attack. His son, Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan) looks like an ordinary young American man who’s reasonably upset due to his
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The greatest script ever written still resonates today with its incisive exploration of capitalism, mid-life crisis, depression and the impact of television. Arguably, the best script ever written is one by Paddy Chayefsky for the movie Network. The movie deals with the negative effects of capitalism, divorce, mid-life crisis, depression and television. It is just
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