27 March 2020. Now that all cinemas are closed, see if you can get these fine films online. SUPER FILMS, to view again…. by Neptune For those who are sick of watching the incessant, very troubling news on the VIRUS…. Off the top of my head – some super classics to tide you over…download, NETFLIX, […]
FILM: WOMAN – a documentary of individual women
WOMAN **** (vo in many languages, subtitles in English) 13 March 2020. Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the renowned French environmentalist who has extensively photographed and filmed our beautiful and tortured earth from above, has once again come down to capture humanity – as he did in his last impressive documentary, “Humans”. This time he covers its other […]
FILM: DE GAULLE
6 March 2020. DE GAULLE *** (vo French) Proud, arrogant, prickly, difficult, and authoritarian with a dictatorial streak. These are the words that tend to come to mind when we think of General de Gaulle. And indeed he could be all of those things. Ask the world leaders he came up against. Ask the French […]
FILM: JUDY – a legend and a star
28 February 2020. By Neptune. JUDY *** How very sad her life was. Though for the myriad fans who revered her, she would always be sweet little Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz”, lost, far from home, looking for answers to life, wistfully singing Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Or maybe that really was Judy Garland […]
FILM: RICHARD JEWELL
Neptune’s film picks 21 February 2020. By Neptune. RICHARD JEWELL *** Jewell by name and a jewel by nature. Richard Jewell is a an excellent film to add to the long list of Clint Eastwood’s excellent films and it is a credit to his energy, physical and mental, that at nearly ninety years old he […]
FILM: ARAB BLUES – a Tunisian psychoanalyst moves come back home from Paris
14 February 2020. By Neptune. ARAB BLUES (Un Divan à Tunis) *** (vo French) First shown at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, this social comedy received the Audience Award there, mostly due to the radiant Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani, who plays Selma, a Tunisian psychoanalyst who has decided to come back home from Paris to […]
FILM: THE GENTLEMEN – a crazy yarn and top actors having a whale of a time
7 February 2020. By Neptune. THE GENTLEMEN *** Hugh Grant is unrecognisable, but such sleazy fun; the usually cool Colin Farrell looks like a geek here, but is razor sharp; handsome Charlie Hunnam is hidden behind glasses and a goatee as a loyal lieutenant, while Matthew McConaughey rules the roost as a smooth operator from […]
FILM: JUST MERCY – American criminal injustice
31 January 2020. By Neptune. JUST MERCY (La voie de la justice) ***1/2 This account of the terrible, continued injustice in the American criminal and judicial system is a more up to date version of such excellent films as “Selma” or “12 Years a Slave”. And like those two works, it is a true story, […]
FILM: BOMBSHELL – a group of women bring down Fox CEO
24 January 2020. By Neptune. BOMBSHELL (Scandale) ***1/2 It was a bombshell when back in 2016 a group of women in his offices managed to bring down the mighty Roger Ailes, chairman and CEO of Fox News, because of his persistent sexual harassment towards them. Three top stars – Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman and Margot […]
FILM: 1917 – a 4 star epic
19 January 2020. By Neptune. 1917 **** This film by English director Sam Mendes (“American Beauty”, “Revolutionary Road”, “Skyfall”) is not your usual war film. Not about the Russian Revolution of the same year but about WWI, it is dedicated to his grandfather’s stories of that conflict. Instead of making it ultra realistic as were […]
