Tag Archives: Charlotte Rampling

Benedetta review — Paul Verhoeven’s ridiculous, entertaining erotic nun movie

February 2, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Paul Verhoeven | Written by Verhoeven and David Birke, based on the book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown | 131 min | VOD | ▲▲▲▲△ I often wonder what movies would be like without Paul Verhoeven. Not really often, but can you imagine?… Read More

Dune review — A cinematic feast

October 22, 2021 flawintheiris

Directed by Denis Villeneuve | Written by Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts, and Eric Roth, based on the Frank Herbert book | 155 min | Netflix Oh, how we have waited for Dune. Of all the 2020 features postponed by the pandemic, this is the one I was most looking forward to seeing, and seeing on the… Read More

Sean Connery: 10 Of His Best Non-Bond Roles

November 4, 2020 flawintheiris

Sean Connery died on Saturday, October 31, at age 90. The Scottish actor was the first cinematic James Bond, and for many will always be the greatest — defining the mix of suave, stylish, sexy, and ruthless for a generation of fans. While so much of what he did with that character is easy to… Read More

Now on Canadian Netflix: Summer 2019

July 23, 2019 flawintheiris

To The Bone The first feature directed by Marti Noxon, whose name I’ve always associated with Buffy The Vampire Slayer. She also worked on Sharp Objects, the noirish HBO drama with Amy Adams who played a character with an addiction to self-harm. To The Bone is about Ellen (Lily Collins). She's 20 and anorexic, or… Read More

Red Sparrow review — Jennifer Lawrence is much better than the film she’s in

March 2, 2018 flawintheiris

Directed by Francis Lawrence | Written by Justin Haythe, adapting the novel by Jason Matthews | 139 min There's something uncanny about the stride of Charlotte Rampling. In this film she's the Matron, the head instructor at Sparrow School, the secret camp where Russia trains its hardest, deadliest spies. Maybe it's her boots that make… Read More

45 Years review — The chasm between the spoken and unspoken

February 11, 2016 flawintheiris

Directed by Andrew Haigh, written by Haigh adapting a short story by David Constantine | 95 min. | ▲▲▲▲△ We open long and wide on an English village. It holds for what feels like minutes, plenty of time to absorb details—the fields, the houses, a dog, running. It's the stillness that resonates. Stillness continues throughout this… Read More

Reviews: Assassin, Copenhagen, Night Train To Lisbon, Son Of A Gun, and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him and Her

July 9, 2015 flawintheiris

And now for some recent releases on VOD, iTunes, Netflix, Blu-Ray and the like. Assassin A London hitman named Jamie (Danny Dyer) works for a pair of shady gangster brothers (Martin and Gary Kemp, Spandau Ballet founders who were terrific as another pair of gangster brothers years back in The Krays). On his off hours… Read More

Atlantic Film Festival 2013: Day 3: V/H/S 2, Jeune & Jolie and Blackfish

September 15, 2013 flawintheiris

As I mentioned about last night's There Are Monsters, I'm no fan of the found-footage genre. And yet I thought Jay Dahl managed to take it to a new, almost abstract place in his film. And to the makers of V/H/S 2, I want to say I was impressed with how you creatively shoe-horned the conceit into your anthology… Read More

Melancholia review

November 27, 2011 flawintheiris

Written and directed by Lars von TrierI've said it before and will again: von Trier is a provocateur. That he's from Denmark, my mother's homeland, the most prominent director to emerge from 1995's Dogma movement—a rigorous aesthetic that he's long since shirked—makes his films interesting to me, but I rarely want to see them again.… Read More