Even a “minor” Truffaut is still a delight. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays the owner of a tobacco plantation on Reunion who places an ad for a bride… and Catherine Deneuve gets off the boat. But much like in 2001′s overlooked Birthday Girl, the mysterious stranger is no innocent. There’s murder, international intrigue, and a man so [...]
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
All posts tagged thriller
Mississippi Mermaid
Posted by Jürgen on July 24, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/07/24/mississippi-mermaid/
The I Inside
The only excuse I have for sitting through this straight-to-DVD clunker is the presence of Sarah Polley, who Marcy will see in absolutely anything. Ryan Phillippe, Piper Perabo and Stephen Rea are in it too, so how bad could it be? Bad enough for the credits to misspell the star’s name: after an accident that [...]
Posted by Jürgen on July 9, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/07/09/the-i-inside/
Civic Duty
Civic Duty steals liberally from Falling Down, Rear Window, and Dog Day Afternoon to milk September 11 paranoia for a contrived, rickety potboiler. Peter Krause (Nate from Six Feet Under) plays Terry Allen, a laid-off accountant who becomes obsessed with a middle-eastern neighbor he suspects to be a terrorist (Khaled Abol Naga.) Allen’s unsupportive wife [...]
Posted by Jürgen on April 30, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/04/30/civic-duty/
Infernal Affairs
I wish I’d seen this sooner because it’s old news now: Infernal Affairs is much better than Marty’s Oscar-winning remake, The Departed. There are about 49 reasons why this is so, but here are just two: it’s only half as long, and the Hong Kong waterfront is twice as dramatic as Boston’s. Mou gaan dou. [...]
Posted by Jürgen on April 24, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/04/24/infernal-affairs/
Bound
Movies about The Money are always about Trust, too, and the unofficial theme song of the heist thriller is Bob Dylan’s Absolutely Sweet Marie: Well, six white horses that you did promise Were fin’lly delivered down to the penitentiary But to live outside the law, you must be honest I know you always say that [...]
Posted by Jürgen on April 24, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/04/24/bound/
The Black Dahlia
Atrocious. If we’d seen it in time, this movie would have been assured one of the top spots on the list of worst movies of 2006. It’s not just that Scarlett Johannson and Josh Hartnett are fatally miscast–nobody here is pulling off the 40s tough guy/dame thing. Hillary Swank does a mediocre Kate Hepburn impersonation, [...]
Posted by Jürgen on January 21, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/01/21/the-black-dahlia/
The Departed
Marty’s Hearty Head Shot Show. Confident entertainment, especially if you like tough talk and cell phones. The Departed. Martin Scorsese, 2006. ** [tags]film, 2 stars, thriller, cops, guns, murder, martin scorsese, leonardo dicaprio, matt damon, jack nicholson, mark wahlberg, martin sheen, vera farmiga[/tags]
Posted by Jürgen on December 9, 2006
http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/12/09/the-departed/
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