My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Monday, July 1, 2013

The Silence (1963)

Another Ingmar Bergman masterpiece anyone who loves cinema should see, that's what this is and I can't praise it enough.  Two sisters and the younger's son stay in a hotel of an unnamed country heading into war.  The elder sister is a writer and very ill.  As the boy explores the hotel, his mother goes on an adventure of her own.  Visually creative and inspiring on so many levels, this is one of those films that sticks to your mind and doesn't let up.  It's like a black and white Shining without the ghosts or the psychic abilities.  Yet plenty of real-life demons.  Grade: A 
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