Tomas Alfredson’s ‘Let the Right One In’ (2008): Reel to Real
Tomas Alfredson’s ‘Let the Right One In’ reimagines a modern vampire fable with great acting, endearing characters, and a contrapuntally hopeful score.
Tomas Alfredson’s ‘Let the Right One In’ reimagines a modern vampire fable with great acting, endearing characters, and a contrapuntally hopeful score.
Lovers of the dark, fans of industrial and all cyberpunks take note: Shinya Tsukamoto’s ‘Tetsuo: The Iron Man’ is movie heaven.
Released 50 years ago, Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ was from a different time – and from a very different place. A long while passed before I grew into it.
The guy who directed ‘Ghost’ somehow created an intricate, haunting puzzle. ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ is simply immune to the exhaustion of repeated viewing.
Director Ken Russell’s deliciously over-the-top movie follows a scientist’s increasingly precarious and otherworldly investigations into altered states.
Grandmaster of magic and suspense Christopher Lee said his favorite role was a merry jaunt as Lord SummerIsle in ‘The Wicker Man.’
David Lynch is really a genre unto himself, immediately conjuring up those unhinged, paranoid, disturbingly beautiful fever-scapes so peculiar to him.
Here’s an archival interview with Storm Thorgerson, the visual giant who designed classic album covers for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and others.
This edition of Reel to Real returns to a pair of challenging, but always intriguing films released in 1999 by directors David Fincher and Milos Forman.
Michael Haneke’s ‘Funny Games’ arrived 25 years ago as an ingenious meditation on hyper-gratuitous violence in mainstream cinema.