Posts Tagged ‘nietzsche’
Teresa Wright (Charlie Newton), Joseph Cotten (Uncle Charlie). Screenplay by Thornton Wilder, Alma Reville and Sally Benson. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Rating: PG. Running time: 108 minutes. If I said Dial M was an exercise in suspense, us as viewers anxiously waiting for the film’s characters to discover what we already know, then it seems that […]
Filed under: crime, mystery, noir | Leave a Comment
Tags: dial m for murder, femme fatale, joseph cotten, nietzsche, noir, rope, shadow of a doubt, teresa wright, the third man
Jean-Paul Belmondo (Ferdinand / Pierrot), Anna Karina (Marianne). Screenplay by Jean-Luc Godard. Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Rating: 15. Running time: 110 minutes. A completely anarchic, impenetrable bugger of a film, Pierrot le Fou is bound to leave you as alienated and enraged as cinema can. It’s Godard at his most elusive. He’s made a film […]
Filed under: french new wave, philosophy of life | 2 Comments
Tags: anna karina, being and nothingness, existentialism, french riviera, jean paul belmondo, jean paul sartre, jean-luc godard, laurel and hardy, nietzsche, paris, pierrot le fou, ryan bingham, up in the air, vietnam
Christian Bale (Bruce Wayne), Heath Ledger (The Joker), Aaron Eckhart (Harvey Dent), Michael Caine (Alfred), Gary Oldman (Gordon), Morgan Freeman (Lucius Fox), Cillian Murphy (Jonathan Crane), Maggie Gyllenhaal (Rachel). Screenplay by Christopher and Jonathan Nolan. Directed by Christopher Nolan. Rating: 12A. Running time: 152 minutes. A cinema-screen film if you’ve ever seen one, the second […]
Filed under: action, crime, drama, thriller | Leave a Comment
Tags: aaron eckhart, batman, bruce wayne, chicago, christian bale, christopher nolan, cillian murphy, gary oldman, gotham city, heath ledger, inception, kant, kurosawa, maggie cyllenhaal, manhattan, michael caine, morality, morgan freeman, nietzsche, nihilism, the dark knight, the joker, ubermensch
Toshirô Mifune (Kingo Gondo), Tatsuya Nakadai (Chief Detective Tokura), Kyôko Kagawa (Reiko Gondo), Tatsuya Mihashi (Kawanishi), Isao Kimura (Detective Arai), Kenjiro Ishiyama (Bos’n), Takeshi Katô (Detective Nakao), Takashi Shimura (Chief of Investigation Section), Tsutomu Yamazaki (Ginjirô Takeuchi). Screenplay by Ryûzô Kikushima, Eijirô Hisaita, Hideo Oguni, and Akira Kurosawa. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. Rating: 12. Running time: 142 minutes. High and Low is the original […]
Filed under: crime, drama, japanese | Leave a Comment
Tags: akira kurosawa, bernard williams, ethics, ground projects, high and low, ikiru, mel gibson, mia wallace, nietzsche, plato, pulp fiction, quentin tarantino, ransom, rashomon, red coat, schindler's list, takashi shimura, Tatsuya Nakadai, the good life, the right life, Toshirô Mifune
Robert De Niro (Max Cady), Nick Nolte (Sam Bowden), Jessica Lange (Leigh Bowden), Juliette Lewis (Danielle Bowden). Screenplay by Wesley Strick. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Rating: 18. Running time: 122 minutes. Max Cady thinks he’s a Nietzschean Übermensch. We see Thus Spake Zarathustra on a shelf in his prison cell, and we’re told he’s reading […]
Filed under: crime, thriller, vulgarity | Leave a Comment
Tags: 6th amendment, bible, cape fear, crime, cuban cigars, defense attorney, guilt, jessica lange, justice, law, martin scorsese, nietzsche, overman, rape, robert de niro, superman, thus spake zarathustra, ubermensch, vigilantism
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949)
Joseph Cotten (Holly Martins), Alida Valli (Anna Schmidt), Orson Welles (Harry Lime). Written by Graham Greene. Directed by Carol Reed. Rating: PG. Running time: 104 minutes. One of the most highly acclaimed films of all time, The Third Man is a classic noir-thriller set on the dark streets of Vienna, telling the story of the mysterious […]
Filed under: mystery, thriller | 1 Comment
Tags: black market, carol reed, graham greene, harry lime, hitchcock, holly martins, joseph cotten, nietzsche, orson welles, racketing, sewers, the third man, vienna
Rope (Alfred Hitchcock, 1948)
James Stewart (Rupert Cadell), John Dall (Brandon Shaw), Farley Granger (Philip Morgan). Written by Patrick Hamilton & Hume Cronyn. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Rating: PG. Running time: 80 minutes. Hitch aimed high with this one: an adaptation of the infamous Leopold and Loeb murder case which delves suprisingly deep for a film into Nietzschean philosophy, […]
Filed under: crime, drama, philosophy of life | Leave a Comment
Tags: crime and punishment, dostoevsky, herd instinct, hitchcock, hume cronym, james stewart, john dall, leopold, leopold and loeb, loeb, master morality, nietzsche, overman, patrick hamilton, perfect murder, raskolnikov, rope, slave morality, superman, ubermensch
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
Alfred Abel (Jon Fredersen), Gustav Fröhlich (Freder), Rudolf Klein-Rogge (Rotwang), Fritz Rasp (The Thin Man), Theodor Loos (Josaphat), Erin Biswanger (11811), Heinrich George (Grot), Brigitte Helm (Maria / The Robot). Directed by Fritz Lang, Screenplay by Thea Von Harbou. Rating: PG. Running time: 118 minutes. First things first: this film was not made in 1927. […]
Filed under: german expressionism, sci-fi, silent | Leave a Comment
Tags: alphaville, avatar, babel, bourgeois, class struggle, freud, fritz lang, godard, james cameron, madonna whore, marxism, metropolis, minority report, nietzsche, overman, proletariat, romanticism, spielberg, superman, tower of babel, ubermensch
