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Korova Award Winners: Best Films of 2012!
Best Film 2012: THE MASTERI’m a year behind on my top ten because I was tired of redacting my list a few months into every new year. Since I don’t get a chance to see many of these great films during...
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NOSTALGHIA (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1983, Italy)
The mathematics of faith reduced to an irreducibly complex equation, where two men become of belief lost in the present tense, yearning for a past once but never was. Andrei Tarkovsky's melancholia is...
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THE QUIET EARTH (Geoff Murphy, 1985, New Zealand)
Scientist Zac Hobson’s world ends with a bottle of pills at precisely 6:12 A.M. but he awakens to a new reality: he is seemingly the last man on Earth. Confused, he explores this strange geography not...
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THE BAD SLEEP WELL (Akira Kurosawa, 1960, Japan)
"Alas poor Nishi, I knew him Itakura!"Nishi is consumed by more than a new identity; the cold breath of revenge fills his lungs and clouds his mind, contaminating his true nature with toxic tragedy....
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SOMEWHERE IN TIME (Jeanott Szwarc, 1980, USA)
Richard Collier desperately bids for time’s return, his lost love reduced to an anachronistic penny worth only hopeless thoughts. Richard Matheson, better known for his novels I AM LEGEND and WHAT...
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THE SIGN OF LEO (Eric Rohmer, 1959, France)
Pierre lives his life day by day, one handout away from poverty and homelessness. He is awoken one morning by a telegram (he doesn’t even have change to tip the delivery boy) stating that he has...
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THIEVES LIKE US (Robert Altman, 1974, USA)
Three violent convicts escape from hard labor, their morality chained to the selfish impulse of profit at any cost: each knows the evil which lurks in the hearts of men. Bowie is the protagonist, the...
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OVER THE EDGE (Jonathan Kaplan, 1979, USA)
Strange creatures haunt the wide streets and narrow minds of a perfect community, their shadows as thick as smoke with flammable intentions that sting like fire. Jonathan Kaplan pushes adolescent ennui...
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THIS SPORTING LIFE (Lindsay Anderson, 1963, UK)
Frank Machin is an evolutionary aberration, reverting towards primal instincts, a great ape who stalks the rugby fields but who dreams of becoming (and remaining) a man. His violence is poetry on the...
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CRUEL STORY OF YOUTH (Nagisa Oshima, 1960, Japan)
A young couple collides and splits like a nuclear reaction; their brief lives a violent tale of a youth culture which has become irradiated by a poisonous post-war dream.The film begins with blood red...
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L’IMMORTELLE (Alain Robe-Grillet, 1963, France)
A nameless French man haunts the mazes of his own memory reliving and experiencing the same trauma repeatedly. Istanbul becomes his purgatory where the ancient crumbling structures are like bleached...
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BLUE RUIN (Jeremy Saulnier, 2014, USA)
One man transposes retribution for justice in order to silence the demons that have driven him to the fringes of society. He learns that only Death is the great equalizer. Director Jeremy Saulnier...
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Korova Award Winners: Best Films of 2013!
Now that we're past the halfway point of 2014 I've finally caught up with films from last year! So here's my Top Ten of 2013.Carlos Reygadas has impressed me with his last two films with influences...
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THAT COLD DAY IN THE PARK (Robert Altman, 1969, USA)
Frances lives a life of lonely luxury surrounded by geriatrics but soon invites mischief and mystery into her flat existence. Director Robert Altman’s contemporaneous tale concerns the Flower Power...
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THE INTRUDER (Roger Corman, 1962, USA)
A stranger comes to Caxton to incite the townsfolk into a patriotic fever in order to protect their way of life from intruders. Roger Corman directs this volatile tale of desegregation in a fictitious...
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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Albert Lewin, 1945, USA)
If people’s selfish and degrading acts were reflected upon their visage, what monstrosities would haunt the streets? Dorian Gray makes a pact with a strange god, its catlike grace frozen forever yet...
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WALKABOUT (Nicolas Roeg, 1971, Australia)
A British schoolgirl and her young brother escape to the outback where they meet another wandering soul in search of adulthood. Director Nicolas Roeg contrasts different cultures to reveal the naked...
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DONT LOOK BACK (D. A. Pennebaker, 1967, USA)
Portrait of a man as a young artist, the anarchy of prose condemned by the prosaic where a guitar recites six string poetry. D.A. Pennebaker's celluloid diary transcends documentary and mere visual...
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THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (Nicolas Roeg, 1976, UK)
Newton falls like the proverbial apple; a tree of knowledge offering a poisonous gift whose adverse reaction ensnares him in the garden of Earthly delights. Director Nicolas Roeg eschews science...
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Korova Award Winners: Best Films of 2014!
01. INHERENT VICE (Paul Thomas Anderson, USA)02. BLUE RUIN (Jeremy Saulnier, USA)03. NIGHT MOVES (Kelly Reichardt, USA)04. IDA (Pawel Pawlikowsky, Poland)05. GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (Wes Anderson, USA)06....
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NIGHT MOVES (Kelly Reichardt, 2013, USA)
Three Eco-terrorists play dam busters with little regard to the repercussions of their explosive act of violence. Kelly Reichardt explores the emotional and intellectual landscape of three radicals...
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TOKYO DRIFTER (Seijun Suzuki, 1966, Japan)
Tetsuya is a samurai hit man who values duty above all else, trying to walk the path of enlightenment through the dark night of his soul. Seijun Suzuki’s absurdist neon noir is a pantheon of trite...
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IKIRU (Akira Kurosawa, 1952, Japan)
Watanabe is sick to death of his pointless existence wrapped in a funereal shroud of redundant bureaucracy; in death he is finally reborn. Director Akira Kurosawa paints a compassionate portrait of a...
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PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (Sam Fuller, 1953, USA)
The brash and maniacal pickpocket Skip McCoy, who soft hands hit like bricks, knocks out Candy’s sweet tooth. Director Sam Fuller’s communist exposé is as subtle as a punch in the jaw, dirty as...
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HANGMEN ALSO DIE (Fritz Lang, 1943, USA)
The diabolical Reinhard Heydrich bleeds his Nazi propaganda into the occupied Prague streets, assassinated by the Czech Resistance who refused to surrender to an occupation of mass murderers. Fritz...
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