"Local Hero" 1983 Bill Forsyth
“Local Hero” is a 1983 Scottish drama film that was directed by Bill Forsyth. A man that works for Knox Oil and Gas, Mac was travelling...
“Local Hero” is a 1983 Scottish drama film that was directed by Bill Forsyth. A man that works for Knox Oil and Gas, Mac was travelling...
“The Atomic Café” is a 1982 documentary about the nuclear bomb threats that occurred in the United States throughout the Cold War. The...
“The Good, The Bad, The Weird” is a South Korean 2008 war, comedy, action and Western film that was directed by Kim Jee-woon. Jee-woon...
“The Hole” is a 1998 Taiwanese drama-musical film that was directed by Tsai-Ming-liang and starred Lee-Kang-sheng. In this film, an...
“American Graffiti” is a 1973 comedy film that was directed by George Lucas and starred Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat and...
Since the ending of World War II, the culture of Palestine has been diminishing. Due to conflict with Israel, they lost a substantial...
In 1985, Hou Hsiao-hsien starred, directed and created his second full-length film, “Taipei Story”. During this time, film directors were...
“United 93” is a 2006 thriller, docufiction and drama film that simulates what likely occurred onboard the hijacking of United Airlines...
Stanley Kramer released a Western film in 1952 entitled “High Noon”, which was a real time-based film where the entire story took place...
Abbas Kiarostami’s “Taste of Cherry” is a melodrama journey film starring Homayoun Ershardi as Mr. Badii. The main idea was that Mr....
William Friedkin’s 1971 film “The French Connection” is an action-thriller film that stars Gene Hackman as Detective Popeye Doyle,...
“Rebels of the Neon God” is a 1992 Taiwanese action crime thriller film written and directed by Tsai Ming-liang. This film was also the...
The “Night of the Living Dead” is a 1968 independent horror and thriller film created by Russell Streiner and Karl Hardman and directed...
In 1991, Zhang Yimou released a movie regarding a story about an aristocrat family entitled “Raise the Red Lantern”. This aristocrat’s...
Jean-Luc Godard’s “Contempt” is a 1963 French New Wave melodrama film. This film stars Brigitte Bardot as Camille Javal, Michel Piccoli...
In 1990, Iranian film director, Abbas Kiarostami produced a docufiction film called “Close Up”, where the main characters starred as...
Samuel Fuller’s 1953 film “Pickup on South Street” is a crime film noir starring Richard Widmark as Skip McCoy, Jean Peters as Candy,...
“Dust in the Wind” is a 1986 Taiwanese film directed and produced by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. During the 1980s, Taiwan’s economy slowly became...
“The Bad and Beautiful” is a 1952 Hollywood melodrama film noir directed by Vincente Minnelli and stars Lana Turner as Georgia Lorrison,...
Happy spring semester!! This semester, I will be posting two blogs per week, one on films between 1950 and today as well as Contemporary...