Jane Campion’s The Piano struck a deep chord with audiences in 1993, who were mesmerized by the film’s rich, dreamlike imagery. It is the story of a Scottish woman named Ada (Holly Hunter), who has been mute since age 6 because she simply chose not to speak. Ada travels with her daughter Flora (Anna Paquin) […]
Casablanca
A truly great movie, Casablanca still wows viewers today. It is unique story of a love triangle set against terribly high stakes in the war against a monster. The story line is sophisticated instead of outlandish, intriguing instead of garish. Humphrey Bogart plays the allegedly apolitical club owner in unoccupied French territory that is nevertheless […]
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie’s Choice is a film about a woman, Zofia “Sophie” Zawistowski (Meryl Streep), a Polish immigrant and survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who now lives with her lover, Nathan Landau (Kevin Kline), a exuberant American Jew obsessed with the Holocaust. They befriend Stingo (Peter MacNicol), the movie’s narrator, a young American writer new to New […]
A Walk to Remember
In Beaufort, North Carolina, a prank on a student goes terribly wrong and puts the student in the hospital. Landon Carter (Shane West), a popular student with no defined plans for the future, is held responsible and forced to participate in after-school community service activities as punishment, which include starring as the lead in the […]
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