Blue Steelīefore she started drawing from real events for her movies, Kathryn Bigelow employed her knack for extreme tension in this psychological thriller about a rookie cop (Jamie Lee Curtis) trying to escape a stalker with a gun fetish. Coming just a year after “Beetlejuice,” Winona Ryder solidified her budding stardom with the lead role. HeathersĬapping off a decade dominated by high school comedies, this sharp 1989 satire exaggerates the sociopathy underlying pent-up teenage angst and draws out its nastiest potential consequences. Many consider it one of the best concert documentaries of all time. Stop Making Senseįilming a series of Talking Heads concerts during the band’s 1983 tour, Jonathan Demme captures the euphoria of performance and shows why the seminal new wave band captured the sound of an era. Through floods of color and geometric framing, Dario Argento creates a surreal and dreamlike sanctum of evil before puncturing the illusion with tactile death traps. Suspiria Moviestore/Shutterstock SuspiriaĪ ballet academy draws dancers from around the world to be torn to shreds by a coven of witches in the 1977 thriller. The whip-smart script turns corner after corner until there’s no way to know which way is up, but it’s a joy to simply surrender to the story’s loop-de-loops. Available on Tubi. CharadeĬary Grant and Audrey Hepburn are as charming as ever in this snazzy, colorful caper. Beginning with the horrors of the trenches during World War I, the story simply moves from one death trap to another, revealing the fragility of these men under terrifying circumstances. Available on Tubi and YouTube. Stanley Kubrick pulls no punches in this war film about an officer (Kirk Douglas) defending three soldiers against a death sentence for refusing to engage in a suicide attack. Orson Welles brings his usual showmanship directing and starring in this dizzy film noir about a Nazi fugitive embedded in American society whose past catches up with him. Available on Tubi. A riveting portrait of a class system in close quarters, the film effectively made John Ford and John Wayne synonymous with the Western. Available on Tubi. Many years later she is visited by Jo with his young wife and child.Stagecoach Moviestore/Shutterstock StagecoachĪ group of strangers piles into a horse-drawn carriage and are sent wheeling across the frontier. But when he declares his love for her, she says that going further together would never work. He finds success as top DJ in the Amnesia club, while she starts enjoying German poetry and music. Jo's mother tells Martha that her avoidance of all things German is a selfish evasion and, wary of Jo's closeness to Martha, that the young man should come home.Īfter the air has been cleared by these exchanges, both Martha and Jo develop. While Martha and Jo are deeply shocked, as is the old man after releasing long-suppressed memories. Challenged by Martha, the grandfather confesses his role in atrocities. Jo's grandfather and mother visit to tell him he should not be wasting his time in Mediterranean clubs but should return to a proper job in reunited Germany. Jo only knows what he has learned at school and from his grandfather, since his mother always looked forwards to building a new Germany and never looked back. Jo begs her to say what stops her using the language and she explains some of the traumas she underwent as a small child, seeing evidence of atrocities and losing her father in the camps. One day friends from Germany visit Jo and afterwards Martha lets slip that she understood something said about her in German. He is fascinated by Martha, even though she insists on speaking English, and the two solitary neighbours become close. At the only villa nearby arrives Jo, a young German who is a talented composer of electronic music and wants to make a career as a techno DJ. Though German, she refuses to have anything to do with her native country: she will not speak or read the language and will not even ride in a VW Beetle, since that condones the evil of the regime that created the vehicle. Martha has lived by herself for decades in an isolated villa. Schroeder wrote that two of his aims for the film were “to make refusing the use of a language the main dramatic driver” and “to recount a love story advancing without sex, thanks to a series of unspoken agreements”. Set in 1990 on the idyllic island of Ibiza, through a platonic love affair between a young man and a much older woman the film explores the reactions of three generations of Germans to the horrific crimes of Nazi Germany. It was selected to screen in the Special Screenings section at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival. Amnesia is a 2015 Swiss-French drama film directed by Barbet Schroeder.
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