Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Jim Jarmusch asks what eternity feels like after centuries of it. A gorgeous, melancholy 8/10 vampire mood piece reviewed at Master of Worlds.
John Hurt
This archive gathers the films featuring John Hurt reviewed at Master of Worlds: “A Man for All Seasons (1966)”, “I, Claudius (BBC, 1976)”, “Midnight Express (1978)”, and “Snowpiercer (2013)” — 4 titles in all. Across these reviews the focus stays on how John Hurt serves each story: the choices that make a performance work, the roles that anchor a film, and the range visible across different pictures. Rather than rank the performances, the collection treats them as a body of work worth examining. The list continues to expand as additional films are reviewed.
Midnight Express (1978)
Alan Parker’s 1978 Turkish prison drama. Brad Davis as American imprisoned for hashish. Oliver Stone screenplay won Oscar. Brutal.
A Man for All Seasons (1966)
Fred Zinnemann’s 1966 Thomas More biopic. Paul Scofield won Best Actor. Won Best Picture. Robert Bolt’s play adaptation.
Snowpiercer (2013)
Snowpiercer is Bong Joon-ho’s English-language directorial debut and one of the foundational dystopian films of the 2010s. Bong directed and co-wrote with…
I, Claudius (BBC, 1976) — Review
I, Claudius is one of the greatest television productions ever made. The BBC series ran twelve episodes in 1976 and adapted Robert Graves’s novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God. The production budget was approximately three hundred thousand pounds, which was modest even by 1976 BBC standards….