Tag: Trust

  • DANCER IN THE DARK

    DANCER IN THE DARK

    “Dancer in the Dark” is a 2000 musical drama and the final installment of Lars von Trier’s unofficial “Golden Heart Trilogy” (following Breaking the Waves and The Idiots). Set in 1960s rural America but filmed with a stark, Dogme 95–-influenced realism, the film follows a Czech immigrant named Selma, who is slowly going blind and…

  • JOYRIDE

    JOYRIDE

    “Joyride” is a 1977 crime drama with elements of a road movie, directed by Joseph Ruben, known later for The Stepfather and Sleeping with the Enemy. The film stars Desi Arnaz Jr., Robert Carradine, and Melanie Griffith, marking one of Griffith’s first significant screen appearances. It captures the disillusionment of 1970s American youth through a…

  • SHORT FILM: THE TABLE

    SHORT FILM: THE TABLE

    ‘The Table’ (1972) is a short film directed by Adrian Lyne. It stars Kate Williams as the woman, Derek O’Connor as the man, and Louis Lyne as the child. It centers around a family’s kitchen table at breakfast one morning. The “Table” is the catalyst for an emotional unraveling of events from the night before,…

  • THE THING (82)

    THE THING (82)

    ‘The Thing’ is a seminal 1982 horror film directed by John Carpenter. It stars Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, and Keith David and is an adaptation of John W. Campbell Jr.’s novella Who Goes There?, which also inspired the 1951 movie The Thing from Another World. Carpenter’s The Thing takes a more visceral and paranoid approach,…

  • LA SIRÉNE DU MISSISSIPPI aka MISSISSIPPI MERMAID

    LA SIRÉNE DU MISSISSIPPI aka MISSISSIPPI MERMAID

    “Mississippi Mermaid,” directed by the acclaimed French filmmaker François Truffaut, is a spellbinding and suspenseful tale of love, deception, and obsession. The film features a captivating pairing of French cinema legends, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Catherine Deneuve, in the lead roles. The story is set on the enchanting island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean and…