Ms. 45 (1981) Review
Ms. 45 (1981) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Abel Ferrara made a rape-revenge film with a mute protagonist, almost no dialogue and a budget of around sixty thousand dollars, and Zoe Lund's performance is better than…
Tag: Silence
What a story leaves out does as much work as what it says. This tag collects reviews and craft pieces on silence in film and fiction: the unspoken scene, the withheld line, the pause that lands.
2000sBrokeback Mountain (2005) Review
Brokeback Mountain (2005) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Two men herd sheep on a Wyoming mountain in 1963 and spend the next twenty years failing to have a life. Ang Lee won Best Director and the…
1980sOrdinary People (1980) Review
Ordinary People (1980) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. Robert Redford's first film as director is a carefully observed drama about a family that cannot discuss a death, and it won Best Picture and Director over Raging…
1980sParis, Texas (1984) Review
Paris, Texas (1984) rates 9 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. A man walks out of the desert after four years of silence and the film spends two hours working out why. The peep show scene at the end…
Reading LifeSilent Book Clubs: The Format That Stopped Pretending
A silent book club is a group of people who meet in one room, read whatever they brought, and do not discuss it. No assigned title, no homework, no one pretending they finished. At least two Tampa Bay bookshops now…
2010sA Quiet Place (2018)
John Krasinski directs the post-apocalyptic horror about a family surviving in silence to avoid blind monsters that hunt by sound. A Quiet Place is John Krasinski's 2018 American post-apocalyptic horror film depicting a family surviving in rural silence to avoid…
1990sThe Silence of the Lambs (1991)
An FBI trainee consults imprisoned cannibal Hannibal Lecter to catch a serial killer skinning his victims. The Silence of the Lambs is Jonathan Demme's 1991 American psychological-thriller film adapted from Thomas Harris's 1988 novel, depicting an FBI trainee who consults…
1990sTaste of Cherry (1997)
Kiarostami's 1997 Iranian drama. A man drives around Tehran looking for someone to bury him after his suicide.
1970sThe Mother and the Whore (1973)
Eustache's 1973 French three-and-a-half-hour relationship drama. Post-1968 disillusionment captured in continuous long takes.
1960sCool Hand Luke (1967)
Rosenberg's 1967 prison drama. The chain gang sequence, the egg-eating contest, the broken man at the end.
1980sCode of Silence (1985)
Andrew Davis's 1985 Chicago cop thriller. Among the stronger Chuck Norris theatrical efforts.
1950sRun Silent, Run Deep (1958) Review
Run Silent, Run Deep is one of the great American submarine films and one of the most accomplished collaborations between Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster. Robert Wise had been one of the most accomplished American directors of the previous two…