So you want to shoot a giallo. You have an idea: centuries ago, a mad hangman1 has been executed for his many crimes and now…
CIPC #475: The great escape
This is a serious contender for the title of best movie I’ve ever spotlighted on my blog. It stars great actors like Steve McQueen,1 Charles…
CIPC #469: Ascenseur pour l’échafaud
Our topic for today is a French movie from 1958. The plot goes like this: a man murders his boss, but he gets stuck in…
CIPC #463: Funeral in Berlin
West Berlin was bizarre. An enclave, right in the capital city, governed by, if not the official enemy of the state, then at least their…
CIPC #461: Zathura: A space adventure
Ars longa vita brevis, they say, but I think that’s an overestimation. Sure, people are still listening to Bach, reading Dante, and admiring Euclid’s Elements,…
CIPC #456: The thing from another world
When John Campbell published his collection of short stories Who goes there? in 1938 on a grand total of 3000 copies, he would nary have…
CIPC #451: Ace Venture: when nature calls
In the nineties, between Forrest Gump and Jack Sparrow, there was a trend to build movies around off and slightly dim goofballs. But writing such…
CIPC #438: The French Dispatch
When was the last time we saw a frame narrative on this blog? I don’t know, but we’re doing one again today. The French Dispatch…
CIPC #432: “Hukkunud alpinisti” hotell
Today, we’re dealing with an Estonian film, of all things. It’s based on a novel by the Strugatsky brothers of the same name, which apparently…
CIPC #429: Harrison Bergeron
Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron is, without a doubt, one of the most well-known science fiction stories ever. It is not surprising, then, that it was…