2019 Year-End Review: Forty-Five Moments

Last year, my year-end review of the movies I watched still had the sheen of professional list-making on itl: I thought about it as, more or less, the fifty best movies I saw that year which I hadn’t seen before, but allowed for some leeway on that front to talk about the movies which I… Read More 2019 Year-End Review: Forty-Five Moments

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The Best Intentions (1992)

Dir. Bille August. Starring Samuel Froler, Pernilla August, Ghita Norby I wonder what it says that the movie I would give to someone who had never come across a Bergman movie before would be to give them an August movie. The Best Intentions gives us for the old master what Shelby Foote referred to as… Read More The Best Intentions (1992)

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2019 Year-End Review: Forty-Five Moments

The Best Intentions (1992)