The next film from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book’s recommendation for my screening of Last Tango in Paris, is this rather somber film, that is based on the true story of its author, Gavino Ledda. Often dark, the film follows Gavino (Saverio Marconi), a young Sardinian, trying to be his…
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Fight Club (1999) – David Fincher
It’s been awhile since I’d seen this one, so seeing it as a recommendation in the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book after my screening of Pulp Fiction, I was happy to sit down and take a look at it again. I have no doubt that this brilliantly subversive film will go…
TIFF 2012: Mr. Pip – Andrew Adamson
Whenever I hear that a film that is coming out has been based on a novel, I am usually prepared to just like it, at best. Movies are rarely as good as the book, and so I automatically go in with slightly lowered expectations as a result. Even – as in this case –…
