Blindsided by THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC

This month, the blind spot series sends me back to Sunday School. Who needs a film with recorded dialogue when you have the expressive face of Maria Falconetti to express such a range of emotion?

ikiru, kanji watanabe, takashi shimura

Blindsided by IKIRU

We begin a new round of essentials with a bummer.
An sublimely, achingly, beautiful bummer.

THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY

Nine years after the king returned, Peter Jackson is taking us back to Middle Earth to show us how it all began. The question is, will the prologue measure up to the wonderful chapters we’ve already read?