Two Lists, Ten Favorites: Films of Martin Scorsese
by GEOFF GEIB, NIR SHALEV and HELEN GEIB
An occasional feature where the writers compare their five favorite films by some of the greats of world cinema.
Martin Scorsese (b. 1942)
GEOFF’S TOP FIVE
To be clear, this list is pointedly different than a list of my five best Scorsese films would be, and there is no better evidence to this than the omission of titles like Taxi Driver or The Last Temptation of Christ, which, while great, great films, are hardly ones that scream out for multiple viewings while distractedly typing away on the computer and trying not to overcook the penne. The following five I could stop, start in the middle, or watch endlessly on a loop and never want for more. Read more 
Photo Play: Singin’ in the Rain (1952)
by HELEN GEIB
This month on Photo Play: April showers bring… umbrellas.
Capsule Movie Review – Safe (2012)
by HELEN GEIB
Hollywood never tires of peddling left-wing paranoid conspiracy theories. Safe‘s is only the most outlandish element of an over-complicated plot also involving the Chinese mob, the Russian mob, crooked NYC cops, official corruption at the highest levels, a scruffy tough-guy hero, and a cute Chinese girl who is a math savant. Read more
Thinking Outside the Multiplex in Indiana (April 27, 2012)
by HELEN GEIB
My pick for the week is below. What’s yours?
My Top Pick for the Week
The word “unique” is bandied about pretty freely these days, but if there’s one filmmaker around who’s earned the description it’s Canadian auteur Guy Maddin. Read more
Keeping Track (April 26, 2012)
by HELEN GEIB
Last Week at the Movies/Last Week at Home
Clearly I spent far too many hours doing yard work last week since I didn’t watch anything at home. Nothing new drew me out to the multiplex, but the “Dickens Bicentennial Celebration and Variety Show” was a wonderful theater experience with a film component: a 1913 Vitagraph called The Adventure of the Honorable Event, from an episode of The Pickwick Papers. Also on the program was a magic lantern show, lantern slides and a dramatic reading of A Christmas Carol, for a trip through pre-cinema history. Read more
Trailers for Movies I Like: Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995)
by HELEN GEIB
A monthly series. Title self-explanatory.
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Photo Play: My Best Girl (1927)
by HELEN GEIB
This month on Photo Play: April showers bring… umbrellas.
On the Night Court doorstep…
Capsule Movie Review – The Raid: Redemption (2012)
by HELEN GEIB
The setting of The Raid: Redemption is the Indonesian version of the projects: a decaying housing block dominated by thuggish criminals and the crime lord who runs the place like his personal fiefdom. Read more
Thinking Outside the Multiplex in Indiana (April 20, 2012)
by HELEN GEIB
Two very promising foreign films open in Indianapolis at the Keystone Art Cinema, while in Bloomington it’s a silent Dickens weekend. What makes your list this week? Read more
Keeping Track (April 19, 2012)
by HELEN GEIB
Last Week at the Movies
Lockout
The Raid: Redemption
Last Week at Home
Now that I have free time again I’ve been using it to check out the Hong Kong movies on Netflix streaming. It’s a disappointingly small number and even smaller when you take out the ones I’ve already seen, but I’ve found some to try. The best of this week’s batch were Eye in the Sky, another top-notch Milkyway crime drama with some nice variations on the usual cops and robbers scenario, and recent Hong Kong film awards best film winner Bodyguards and Assassins. Read more
