The Problem of Johnny
DIRECTOR: MIKE LEIGH/1993
Take the image of a scruffy, dour figure dressed in a black trenchcoat standing ruefully in the trash-strewn th...
The Un-Romanticized Era of Depression Anti-Nostalgia
DIRECTED BY WALTER HILL/1975
A freight train comes whistling ’round the bend carrying, along with its sl...
An Historical Perspective
DIRECTOR: Robert Bresson/French/1956
The original trailer announcing the 1956 release of Robert Bresson’s fourth film, A Man Escap...
Our Crew Weighs In On Seeing Essential De Niro Films For The First Time
Brian De Palma discovered him, Martin Scorsese made him an icon. On screen, he is ...
A Classical View of Contemporary Romance
DIRECTOR: Eric Rohmer/French/1992
In everyday life we are perhaps more prone to accept, unthinkingly, the happensta...
A French Director's Vision of America
DIRECTOR; Jean-Pierre Melville/French/1959
“Whenever Americans are looking for a man, they keep three words in mind… ‘...
Fleeting Time in the Hands of its Fairy Tale Creators
DIRECTOR; Jean Cocteau/French/1946
“I wonder. I ask myself whether or not these exhausting days may not b...
Cold as Ice, Warm as the Sun
Welcome to the inaugural entry in our new Film Admissions column!
Each time (monthly, or thereabouts), all ZekeFilm contributor...
A Time Travel Top Ten List
And so we come to the end of another movie year and the hard work the busy ZekeFilm contributors have put into reviewing and commenti...
A New Year's Nightmare!
DIRECTOR: Victor Victor Sjöström/Swedish/1921
A short write-up today for New Year’s, courtesy of a haunted New Year’s long-since pas...
From his home in Madison, Wisconsin, Justin is well on his way to achieving his childhood goal of seeing every movie ever made. A devotee of literature and cinema, he's here to share what he's picked up along his lonely cinematic path of the “omniviewer”.
Justin's Top Ten Films of All Time:
