8½ (1963).
Whenever a filmmaker is asked, ‘what is the greatest film ever made about film making?’, invariably one of the most common answers is Federico Fellini’s 1963 Masterpiece 8½. The reason… Continue reading "8½ (1963)."
Category: Retrospectives
Our on-going series of in-depth retrospective reviews of classic films.
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Directors Series – Christopher Nolan, Part 5 – Interstellar (2014).
Christopher Nolan’s science fiction epic falters at a few moments particularly in the latter part of its second act, but nevertheless manages to be an ambitious and powerfully told tale… Continue reading "Directors Series – Christopher Nolan, Part 5 – Interstellar (2014)."
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Directors Series – Christopher Nolan, Part 4 – Inception (2010).
Conceptually, I can’t think of a film that has sparked my imagination in such a specific way as Christopher Nolan’s Inception. There’s much to be said of a filmmaker that’s… Continue reading "Directors Series – Christopher Nolan, Part 4 – Inception (2010)."
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Directors Series – Christopher Nolan, Part 3 – The Prestige (2006).
There’s an argument to be made that The Prestige is Christopher Nolan’s finest film. A Victorian-era tale of revenge and rivalry between two magicians, Nolan’s adaptation of Christopher Priest’s novel… Continue reading "Directors Series – Christopher Nolan, Part 3 – The Prestige (2006)."
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Directors Series – Christopher Nolan, Part 2 – Insomnia (2002).
The film that helped land Christopher Nolan the keys to the Batcave, and the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship with Warner Bros., Insomnia is an oft overlooked part… Continue reading "Directors Series – Christopher Nolan, Part 2 – Insomnia (2002)."
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Directors Series – Christopher Nolan, Part 1 – Memento (2000).
Christopher Nolan’s Memento is a loose adaptation of the short story Memento Mori, written by his brother Jonathan Nolan and based on a concept he pitched to Chris during a… Continue reading "Directors Series – Christopher Nolan, Part 1 – Memento (2000)."
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Playing in The Dark (or Why A Casual Gamer Loved Dark Souls).
Filmmaker and host of the Flixwise Canada Podcast, Martin Kessler takes an explorative look back at the unforgiving, yet thoroughly rewarding, twisted nightmare of a video game that is 2011’s… Continue reading "Playing in The Dark (or Why A Casual Gamer Loved Dark Souls)."
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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) – Review.
Best Laid Plans. *** SPOILER ALERT *** For the third time in two years we‘re about to have another Star Wars film unleashed upon us and will likely get one… Continue reading "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) – Review."
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The People Versus… Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015).
At Film ’89 we like to celebrate film but occasionally a movie comes along that isn’t necessarily deserving of all the praise or financial success bestowed upon it. In the… Continue reading "The People Versus… Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)."
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Masters of Cinema Buster Keaton Collection: Part 2 – The General (1927) – Review.
The second film in our look at the recent Eureka Video Buster Keaton Collection is, perhaps his most famous, The General. It’s a film which Orson Welles – in one of the extras on… Continue reading "Masters of Cinema Buster Keaton Collection: Part 2 – The General (1927) – Review."