JAN TROELL Bil’s rating (out of 5): B. USA/Netherlands, 1979. Dino De Laurentiis Company, Famous Films. Screenplay by Lorenzo Semple Jr., based on the novel by James Norman Hall, Charles Nordhoff. Cinematography by Sven Nykvist. Produced … Continue reading →
ALAN J. PAKULA Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 1979. Paramount Pictures. Screenplay by James L. Brooks, based on the novel by Dan Wakefield. Cinematography by Sven Nykvist. Produced by James L. Brooks, … Continue reading →
LOUIS MALLE Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB.5. USA, 1978. Paramount Pictures. Story by Polly Platt, Louis Malle, Screenplay by Polly Platt. Cinematography by Sven Nykvist. Produced by Louis Malle. Production Design by Trevor Williams. Film Editing by … Continue reading →
ROMAN POLANSKI Bil’s rating (out of 5): BB. France, 1976. Marianne Productions. Screenplay by Gerard Brach, Roman Polanski, based on the novel by Roland Topor. Cinematography by Sven Nykvist. Produced by Andrew Braunsberg. Music by … Continue reading →
INGMAR BERGMAN Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBBBB. Sweden, 1960. Svensk Filmindustri. Screenplay by Ulla Isaksson. Cinematography by Sven Nykvist. Produced by Ingmar Bergman, Allan Ekelund. Music by Erik Nordgren. Production Design by P.A. Lundgren. Costume Design by … Continue reading →
BBB (out of 5) A young woman (Cathryn Harrison, granddaughter to Rex) escapes a post-apocalyptic battleground in her car and finds herself in an abandoned mansion in the middle of nowhere, … Continue reading →
BB (out of 5) College melodrama where students are taught to break the rules by an unorthodox guru. This time the mastermind in question is a free-spirited homeless man (Joe … Continue reading →
BBBB.5 (out of 5) One of the most exciting of the many curious and wonderful chamber pieces that Bergman filmed on his home island of Faro in the late sixties, with … Continue reading →
BB (out of 5) Dreary update of the 1946 classic adapted from the novel by James M. Cain isn’t as entertaining. Jack Nicholson plays the shady drifter who takes a … Continue reading →
BBB.5 (out of 5) Writer Callie Khouri goes from the seriousness of Thelma and Louise to a lighter touch in dealing with the issues that southern women face in their … Continue reading →
BBB.5 (out of 5) Touching family drama about the young man of the title (an excellently subdued Johnny Depp) growing up in his strange family in a strange small town. … Continue reading →
BBB.5 (out of 5) Sometimes flat but often engrossing adaptation of Marcel Proust’s novel, directed by Academy Award-winner Volker Schlondorff (The Tin Drum). Jeremy Irons plays an aristocrat in 19th-century Paris … Continue reading →
