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Steven Benedict is a well-known radio broadcaster, college lecturer, writer, producer, and director of films and documentaries.
For my final podcast, I look at how Steven Spielberg effectively remade his first feature, Firelight to deliver a message of hope. The post...
In January 1954, Francois Truffaut wrote a landmark essay on film criticism. Five years later, he put his theory into practice and cinema ne...
The gangster genre is dominated by men, but in Martin Scorsese's The Irishman the most important position is held by a woman who utters bare...
Rome Open City began filming as Auschwitz was liberated and Roberto Rossellini's film marks a crucial step in the creation of art in the wak...
Puzzling audiences ever since it premiered at Cannes in 2001, David Lynch's dark masterpiece seems to address the abuse of women in the film...
With this modernist masterpiece, Michelangelo Antonioni told a story that abandoned its initial plot. Booed at Cannes, it paved the way for...
It is said a film is made three times; writing, filming and editing. In which case, editor Walter Murch deserves enormous credit for this ma...
Like many Fellini films, Amarcord is a contradiction; an account of his youth yet a complete fabrication, a vivid realisation of the past, b...
Four years after the advent of sound in cinema, Charlie Chaplin insisted on making a silent movie the entire plot for which hinged on not be...
This French masterpiece avoids all the clichés of American prison films while at the same time bearing an uncanny similarity to a 1960s' Jap...
Twenty-one feature films, $14b at the worldwide box-office and 15 Oscars. If you ever wondered about the secret of Pixar's success, read the...
In Agnes Varda's classic, Corrine Marchand plays one woman; happy Cléo and anxious Florence, walking about Paris in real time awaiting her m...
Whether it be ethically, legally, politically, geographically or even chemically, Michael Mann's multi-Oscar nominated picture is about cros...
In adapting Wajdi Mouawad’s play, Denis Villeneuve used two time lines to push the past against the present and ask if suffering is the only...
The Palme d'Or winner in 1949, Carol Reed's masterpiece drew on covert sources and unexpected styles and techniques to deliver a melancholic...
Master auteur, Abbas Kiarostami forged his career by defying conventional film grammar to successfully find new ways of presenting the human...
Originally titled Whore's Gold, Clint Eastwood's Oscar-winning western exposes the psychosis, bigotry and misogyny at the heart of the genre...
Matteo Garrone's adaptation of Roberto Saviano's book on the Neapolitan camorra smacks down the innumerable movies that have marketed the Ma...
Forget Vertigo. Alfred Hitchcock's greatest film is Notorious. With his usual McGuffin, he wrapped a paranoid love story inside an espionage...
Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning divorce drama delivers a story that is specific to a particular time and place yet also manages to resonate o...
Almost seventy years young, this masterpiece offers up for our modern age unexpected and pertinent meaning. The post 381. Singin’ in t...
Kenji Mizoguchi's masterpiece owes a great debt of gratitude to Kazuo Miyagawa's luminous, shimmering cinematography. The post 380. Ugetsu M...
This 60s' American classic mixes avant-garde with mythology to examine male identity, intimacy, sexuality and trauma. The post 379. Midnight...
Cristian Mungiu won the Palme d'Or for his unflinching drama about a single day in the lives of two young women. The post 378. 4 Months, 3 W...
Mindhunter marks the fourth time David Fincher has depicted serial-killers. Far from resorting to tired clichés, with the second season he h...
In Carl Theodor Dreyer's silent masterpiece, the story isn't so much told through the Saint's eyes as it is read on her face. The post 376....
With his Palme d'Or winning debut, Steven Soderbergh made a modern classic as well as a how-to manual for film students. The post 375. sex,...
Few film songs come anywhere near the layered meanings of Falling in Love Again, sung by Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg’s The Blue...
Superficially, Cast Away asks whether modern man can survive alone on a desert island. But Robert Zemeckis' best film is really about destin...
Robert Bresson's masterpiece is a perfect example of less is more; natural acting, minimal music, off-screen sounds and restricting yourself...
Tom Wolfe's superb account about the early days of NASA's space program needed filmmakers who shared a daring similar to the maverick pilots...
Nostalgia originally had nothing to do with the past but rather a desire to return home. Cinema Paradiso resonates with the feeling that cin...
If small details are the important, this is really about a woman's quest for significance and a man's need for a make-over. The post 369. No...
Perhaps the greatest ever film about an artist, Andrei Rublev steadfastly refuses to show its subject painting let alone him holding a brush...
How do you make a film about a sociopath who murders his entire extended family and still get the audience to root for him? The post 367. Ki...
Widely regarded as the greatest war picture ever made, Elem Klimov's Come and See takes its title from The Book of Revelations to deliver a...
Released to ecstatic reviews in 1998, Steven Spielberg's film soon suffered a backlash. Twenty-one years on it has finally come of age. The...
How did Wolfgang Petersen manage to get audiences to care about a bunch of Nazi sailors trying to destroy the British fleet in the North Atl...
No matter how cinematic, all films are nothing more than a form of writing that borrows from other forms of writing. Which is why Arrival co...
There are several good reasons to watch Bernardo Bertolucci’s controversial drama. Not all of them make for palatable viewing. The post 362....
What if science-fiction were not a literary genre but a political and ideological theory. If so, Alex Garland uses Ex Machina to show us how...
Ari Folman's animated documentary is different from many other films about trauma. But it is only in its final moments that it reveal its mo...
Five years in the making, David Lynch's film is one of the most compelling, bewildering, original, disturbing and influential debuts in all...
Bong Joon-Ho embraced every cliché of the serial killer genre to examine masculinity, institutional repression and national identity. The po...
In adapting Stephen King's best-seller, Stanley Kubrick drew on a genre other than horror and used a new motif that he would repeat for the...
Michael Haneke asks audiences difficult questions yet never provides easy answers. When he calls his film Hidden, can we expect anything dif...
If such an inscrutable character sits at the heart of John Le Carré's labyrinthine plot, how is the adaptation such a lucid film? The post 3...
The vampire genre is ripe with themes; sexuality, feminism, xenophobia, disease, yet Let The Right One In broke new ground. The post 354. Le...
For a film that requires so many special effects in order to create the feeling of weightlessness, how did Alfonso Cuarón still keep Gravity...
Alfonso Cuarón has long flirted with the neorealist style. His latest masterpiece, Roma illustrates cinema is not about what you show, but h...