Michael Kanbergs

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• 7 Un Flic

  A very good, but slightly flawed film by the master of the heist - Jean-Pierre Melville.

  in Video — by Michael Kanbergs — on Apr 02, 2005

• 6 My Own Private Idaho

  Things I ignored (accidentally) in this review: America, the beatiful; dreamscape; subjective reality; any semblance of coherence...

  in Video — by Michael Kanbergs — on Mar 27, 2005

• 5 L'Eclisse

  A review of Antonioni's 1962 film to perfectly (perfectly!) coincide with the new (and beautiful) Criterion release. Miraculous? Nay, just a marvel of modern technology.

  in Video — by Michael Kanbergs — on Mar 18, 2005

• 4 Taxi Driver

  "How's your driving record?" "It's clean. Real clean. Like my conscience."

  in Video — by Michael Kanbergs — on Mar 18, 2005

• 3 Touch of Evil

  Noir's death knell proves a paradigm of the living: fatality, flaws, but no femme fatale.

  in Video — by Michael Kanbergs — on Mar 11, 2005

• 2 The Thin Red Line

  Heroism: what it is, what it isn't, and why that matters.

  in Video — by Michael Kanbergs — on Mar 10, 2005

• 1 In a Lonely Place

  "I was born when she kissed me, I died when she left me."

  in Video — by Michael Kanbergs — on Mar 09, 2005