Tag: Memento

• Top 5 Noir Movies

  Originally published at Cinema Sugar. 1. Double Indemnity This isn’t the first major noir (fedora-tip to The Maltese Falcon) but damned if it isn’t the genre’s absolute peak: femme fatale, no-nonsense narration, crime gone wrong, investigator on the case. It’s hard to pick Billy Wilder’s best movie but this has to be near the top.…

  Nov 4, 2022

  # Alfred Hitchcock, best of, Cinema Sugar, Coen Brothers, film, film noir, lists, Memento, movies, The Third Man

• Favorite Films of 2001

  I’m creating my movie best-of lists retroactively. See all of them. We’re now over 20 years away from the films in question. This means my impressions of the ones I haven’t rewatched somewhat recently are encased in metaphorical amber, for better or worse. It also means I wouldn’t have seen a good number of them…

  Apr 10, 2022

  # best of, Christopher Nolan, film, lists, Lord of the Rings, Memento, movies, review

• Best Films of the 2000s

  The Lives of Others (2006) – A German film about a surveillance expert who spies on a playwright in Communist Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall, The Lives of Others won the Best Foreign film at the Oscars and for good reason. Unbearably suspenseful and surprisingly moving, The Lives of Others shows that…

  Dec 30, 2009

  # best of, Children of Men, film, High Fidelity, In America, lists, Memento, movies, Once, review, The Lives of Others, Unbreakable, WALL-E, Zodiac

• The Prestige

  The Prestige is a film about magicians and their illusions, but it is also an illusion itself. In the film and in magic, we are first shown the Pledge; a seemingly ordinary scenario that we will assume is probably not so ordinary. Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) and Rupert Angier (Hugh Jackman) two rival magicians who…

  Oct 22, 2006

  # Batman Begins, Christian Bale, Christopher Nolan, film, Hugh Jackman, Memento, Michael Caine, movies, review, Scarlett Johansson, The Prestige