Echoes of the Past (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Nicholas Dimitropoulos
Starring: Alice Krige | Astrid Roos | Danae Skiadi | Martin Laer | Max von Sydow | Maximos Livieratos | Nikolas Papagiannis
The Seventh Seal (1957)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Starring: Bengt Ekerot | Bibi Andersson | Gunnar Björnstrand | Inga Gill | Max von Sydow | Nils Poppe
Michael says: “It was the 17th film Bergman directed, but it was his breakout. Based on his play, ‘Transitions’ THE SEVENTH SEAL follows a knight, Antonious Block, returning from the Crusades with his squire, to find his homeland ravaged by
Read the review...Solomon Kane (2012)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Michael J. Bassett
Starring: James Purefoy | Jason Flemyng | Max von Sydow | Pete Postlethwaite | Rachel Hurd-Wood | Samuel Roukin
Thom says: “This is one of those big-budget extravaganza & fantasy creation that is beautifully done with lovely images of creatures from lost worlds. The time is the 1500s and our hero Kane has to fight pure evil to overcome
Read the review...The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Julian Schnabel
Starring: Ann Consigny | Emmanuelle Seignier | Issach De Bankolé | Jean-Pierre Cassel | Marie-Josée Croze | Marina Hands | Mathieu Amalric | Max von Sydow | Patrick Chesnais
Bruce says: “Julian Schnabel suspects that Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) was superficial and arrogant, not a particularly likeable man, before he suffered the fatal stroke that turned him into a sensitive, reflecting human being. Bauby was editor of Elle magazine
Read the review...Intacto (2003)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.125 cats
Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Starring: Eusebio Poncela | Leonardo Sbaraglia | Max von Sydow | Mónica López
Esme says: “INTACTO was great. I really like this movie. It is a well-acted, under-dramatized sort of movie that they will probably try to ruin and remake in America with Bridget Fonda as the female detective, a la LA FEMME
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