17 July 2020. WHERE’D YOU GO, BERNADETTE? *** Oscar-crowned Cate Blanchett – the younger version of Meryl Streep – for she is a chameleon of an actress, plays here a celebrated architect with a happy and loving family, who suddenly disappears, probably off to Antarctica. She has not been practicing her profession for some years, […]
FILM: ARETHA FRANKLIN – AMAZING GRACE
3 July 2020. Cinelux cinema is showing UN DIVAN A TUNIS, a delightful film that they originally brought out in mid-February of this year. And then Covid hit, and it was closedown. Below is the original review of it on February 14. Cinelux is also featuring the thrilling documentary on ARETHA FRANKLIN – AMAZING GRACE. A true […]
Renowned artist EDWARD HOPPER in Basel
Solitary, pensive figures. Deserted streets or a luminous gas station in twilight. A night diner seen from outside. These are the static, atmospheric scenes we usually connect with Edward Hopper’s paintings. A uniquely American artist, who lived from 1882 to 1967. The famed Beyeler museum in Basel has chosen to exhibit a few of these, […]
FILM: AGAINST ALL ENEMIES – Seberg and the Black Panthers
26 June 2020. Dear cinephiles, due to the recent lengthy confinement, you have probably gotten used to watching all sorts of films on your small or big screens at home. It’s easy, cheap and comfortable, so you may be reluctant to go back to the BIG screen in the newly reopened cinemas. But nothing tops […]
FILM – A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
19 June 2020. There’s a lot going on in the Geneva cinemas as they try valiantly to come up for air and win back cinephiles to their comfortable screening rooms and their attractive programming. They are starting off with some films that had just been released when Corona hit, like DEGAULLE and Eastwood’s RICHARD JEWELL in the Pathé Cinemas. Both […]
FILM: QUEEN AND SLIM – mirroring George Floyd
12 June 2020. QUEEN AND SLIM **** It’s uncanny how sometimes things gravitate to each other just at the right time. Or maybe it’s that an excellent work naturally fits into the present, whenever it was written (as so many works of Shakespeare or other immortal writers), or created as a film. Quality is timeless. […]
FILM: a concentration of excellence
29 May 2020. We’re getting to the end of our wait for the BIG screen, in quiet, dark movie theatres, to entertain us once again. They are set to open up by 6 June, but we don’t know yet the films which will be released. In the meantime, here are more classic films to see […]
FILM: 7 international classics!
15 May 2020. Dear cinephiles, this week you are getting a list of some outstanding international classics. Believe me, these gems are worth reading those bothersome but necessary subtitles. BURNT BY THE SUN (Russian) One of Nikita Mikhalkov’s finest films, on the precarious Stalin years. KOLYA (Czech) – An Oscar-winning, superb portrait of an abandoned child in […]
FILM: 7 more excellent films
8 May 2020. We’re all encouraged by the gentle re-opening up of life and society. Let’s hope it will work smoothly. It would help if we just keep those masks on, regularly wash our hands, and keep a correct distance with re-united friends. No three-kisses please! But confinement has also shown us some marvelous talents […]
FILM: 11 documentaries!
1 May 2020. DOCUMENTARIES ! I thought I would give you a selection of outstanding documentaries this week. Enough of delightful or dramatic entertainment. Let‘s get down to the fine art of the grey cells (as Hercules Poirot would say). Or as the old saying goes, “Truth is stranger than fiction” (from such luminaries as […]
