There are two Must Sees in theaters now, and both were nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Language Picture Oscar:
- The hilariously dark Argentine comedy Wild Tales, a series of individual stories about revenge fantasies becoming actualized.
- The Job-like Russian drama Leviathan, a searing expose of post-Soviet Russian society.
Queen and Country is director John Boorman’s (Deliverance) well-crafted and moderately entertaining look back at his year as a British Army conscript in the 50s.
We’ve just concluded the 2015 Cinequest film festival. Here’s all my Cinequest coverage – with several features and comments on over twenty five movies – conveniently linked on one page.
My DVD/Stream of the Week is Dear White People, a brilliant comedy about identity that’s on my list of Best Movies of 2014. It’s available on DVD from Netflix and Redbox and streaming on Amazon Instant, iTunes, Vudu, YouTube, Google Play, Xbox Video and Flixster.
On March 16, Turner Classic Movies is playing the French thriller Wages of Fear. It’s directed by that master of suspense Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique), nicknamed the French Hitchcock. The Wages of Fear features one achingly scary scene where two truck drivers try to get a long truck around a cliff side hairpin curve – and the truck is filled with nitroglycerin.
I am amazed that you know about Wages of Fear. What year did it come out? I would guess it was mid to late 50s. Whenever it was I didn’t sleep for weeks, helpless to erase the image of that truck careening down that narrow road with the explosives.