Tag Archives: Patricia Highsmith

A Cult Of One: Ripley’s Game

April 9, 2024 flawintheiris

Directed by Liliana Cavani | Written by Cavani, Charles McKeown, from the Patricia Highsmith novel | 110 min | VOD, Digital, and Hoopla This is a semi-regular segment on FITI where I shine a light on a feature distinctly unloved, or underloved, which for one reason or another deserves reappraisal. I was reminded of Ripley's… Read More

Deep Water review — High trash, extreme fun

March 23, 2022 flawintheiris

Directed by Adrian Lyne | Written by Zach Helm and Sam Levinson, based on a story by Patricia Highsmith | 115 min | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime A couple of things I want to say off the top about this movie. Grace Jenkins, who plays Trixie, the six-or-seven-year-old daughter of Ana de Armas and Ben… Read More

Carol review — Forbidden love unwrapped

December 15, 2015 flawintheiris

Directed by Todd Haynes | Written by Phyllis Nagy, adapting Patricia Highsmith's novel The Price of Salt | 118 min. | ▲▲▲▲△ | Amazon Prime, Crave, CBC Gem I've enjoyed Haynes' work since I went to see Safe one day in 1995 in a largely empty cinema in Toronto and felt a chill I've rarely experienced at… Read More

The Two Faces of January review — A stylish Patricia Highsmith potboiler (Not In Cinemas)

October 6, 2014 flawintheiris

Here's a film now available on one of the alternative platforms—Netflix, DVD, Blu-Ray, VOD, iTunes, what have you—that didn't open in local cinemas. I'll be reviewing these releases and branding them with my NOT IN CINEMAS label to distinguish them from what's playing on Cineplex screens locally. Halifax is considered a small market by national… Read More