Articles Tagged La Jetee

REVIEW: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Facing the jungles the hills and vales my past lives as an animal and other beings rise up before me Awarded the Palme d’Or at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is as grand in themes as it is intimate in focus. Ruminating on death, the afterlife and […]

REVIEW: Jumper

“From the Visionary Director of The Bourne Identity”, so reads the promotional tagline on one of the pre-release posters for Doug Liman’s Jumper. Call it my unremitting critical cynicism but when it comes to ‘visionary directors’, the name Liman, seems strangely out of place with the likes of Welles, Hitchcock, Bergman, Kurosawa, Marker, or Fellini. […]