“Nelly and Nadine” is a Belgian/Swiss/Swedish documentary and is one of 13 films on the short list for the best film for the 2022 European Film Awards that will be announced in Reykjavik on December 10th. The documentary begins with the narrator commenting on a film reel shot on April 28, 1945, in Malmo SwedenContinue reading “RKS Film: “Nelly and Nadine”: One of Europe’s Best in 2022?”
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RKS Wine: A Glass of Freakshow with “Nightmare Alley”?
Does being politically correct make you nauseous? Being averse to dig into this subject let me give you an example. I was waiting to board an Air Canada flight in Athens headed for Toronto on September 20th. I talked to a father and daughter from Ohio who lived a couple of hours south of ClevelandContinue reading “RKS Wine: A Glass of Freakshow with “Nightmare Alley”?”
RKS Film: “Eleftheromania”: Greek Prisoners in Auschwitz Face Moral Dilemma
A well acclaimed short film “Eleftheromania” is based on 4 years of research by Gregory C. Pappas through firsthand evidence and research of the Auschwitz archives. Greece was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War and the Greek population suffered atrocities when their resistance fought the Germans. Villages were decimated by mass executions.Continue reading “RKS Film: “Eleftheromania”: Greek Prisoners in Auschwitz Face Moral Dilemma”
RKS Films: “True Things”: A Cad Leading a Lamb to the Slaughter
“True Things” is a BritGrit film about an obsession or perhaps the extreme desperation of a woman seeking a relationship encompassing both sex and love. It is also a study of a cad and a lout exploiting that obsession and desperation. Kate Perkin is a thirty something clerk processing claims of some sort in aContinue reading “RKS Films: “True Things”: A Cad Leading a Lamb to the Slaughter”
RKS Wine: The Return of the Penniless Pensioner and the Tirana Tigress in Albania
After months of radio silence, I received a Facetime call from the Penniless Pensioner from the capital of Albania, the glistening Tirana. We chatted like it was yesterday! His last love affair with the Russian Svetlana crumbled rather quickly after her yacht was confiscated in Montenegro. Apparently her yacht was stolen from Crimea when theContinue reading “RKS Wine: The Return of the Penniless Pensioner and the Tirana Tigress in Albania”
RKS Film: “Dead Bride”: Spaghetti Horror Film?
Do you remember those delightfully different Westerns in the 1970’s shot in Spain and Italy. Not only were they enjoyable but they played a role in reviving a languishing genre of film so popular in the 1950’s and 1960’s. The horror genre of film has never really languished but the Italian “Dead Bride” is aContinue reading “RKS Film: “Dead Bride”: Spaghetti Horror Film?”
RKS Film: “The Last Out”: Cuban Fodder for Major League Baseball?
“The Last Out” is a PBS POV documentary which you can stream free (assuming you are not geoblocked) until 2November22 at pbs.org and the PBS Video app. It chronicles the trials and tribulations of three Cuban baseball players fleeing the poverty and lack of baseball opportunities to make their career, hopefully, in American professional baseballContinue reading “RKS Film: “The Last Out”: Cuban Fodder for Major League Baseball?”
RKS Film: “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry”: Initially a Cheesy Romantic Feel-Good All-Over Film Pulls Itself up from its Bootstraps to Possibly Reach Epic Proportions?
“The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry” initially canters on for 30 minutes being a cute feel-good Harlequinesque romance and then darkens quickly and becomes haunted by tragedy, jealousy, infidelity and a whole host of evil vibes. But through this transition from light and fluffy in the immediate moments it spans over a decade. YouContinue reading “RKS Film: “The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry”: Initially a Cheesy Romantic Feel-Good All-Over Film Pulls Itself up from its Bootstraps to Possibly Reach Epic Proportions?”
RKS Film: “Tales from the Gimli Hospital” (Redux)
Gimli is a small town in Manitoba, Canada. In 1983 an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Edmonton ran out of fuel and miraculously coasted from 41,000 feet to an airfield in Gimli Manitoba. So I was piqued in seeing “Gimli” as part of the title to “Tales from the Gimli Hospital”. Written and directedContinue reading “RKS Film: “Tales from the Gimli Hospital” (Redux)”
RKS Film: “Red River Road”: What Is Happening Here?
“Red River Road” is about as indie as they come. The entire production was a family one made during a COVID lockdown. Although in most locations the lockdown no longer exists and if you believe President Biden of the United States COVID is over. Watching the Schuyler family struggle through the perceived terrors you mightContinue reading “RKS Film: “Red River Road”: What Is Happening Here?”
