Tag: Dominique Pinon

‘The City of Lost Children’ – a fairy tale for adults on Amazon Prime

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, fantasy, Halloween, Have You Seen...?, International Cinema, Mystery, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/24/202009/24/2020 Sean Axmaker

The fantastic visions of Belgian filmmakers Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet culminated in The City of Lost Children (France, 1995), fairy tale for adults. Evoking utopias and dystopias from Brazil to Peter Pan, Caro and Jeunet create a vivid but menacing fantasy city in a perpetually twilight world. In this rough port town lives circus […]

Rutger Hauer in ‘Legend of the Holy Drinker’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, Have You Seen...?, International Cinema, literary adaptation, Streaming Movies, SVOD 07/26/201907/26/2019 Sean Axmaker

“I have no home. I sleep under bridges. A different bridge every night. But I am a man of honor.” Rutger Hauer delivers his most delicate and nuanced performance as Andreas Kartak, a homeless alcoholic in Paris in Legend of the Holy Drinker (1988), Ermanno Olmi’s adaptation of Joseph Roth’s novella. Andreas, who frequents taverns […]