Showing posts with label free world cinema. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free world cinema. Show all posts

Monday, October 27, 2014

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 1956 Nunnally Johnson - starring Gregory Peck



Gregory Peck is my favorite Hollywood actor.  Here's one of his more famous films - about the life of a guy returning back to middle class American life after fighting in various World War II battles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWZpUhDu8g

Sunday, August 24, 2014

Mahanagar by Satyajit Ray - 1963



So when we talk about the work of Satyajit Ray as an example of Indian cinema, we are definitely not talking about Bollywood stuff.  Yet the actress from this film - the first Ray ever directed - did, later, become a Bollywood star.

Here's a film by one of the most interesting directors ever.  It's a film about a woman who is compelled to abandon her traditional gender role through economic pressures.  Is she moving from a type of slavery to freedom or just from one form or slavery to another?

Click on 'cc' to get the English subtitles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KHu12xYxU4