Irma la Douce’s Unconventional Love
After starring together in Billy Wilder‘s classic The Apartment, Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine re-teamed again under Wilder’s direction forContinue Reading
Category: 14 Days of Love
As part of Cineccentric’s 14 Days of Love, we share a favorite romance film of ours- classic or contemporary- every day of February leading up to Valentine’s Day at midnight.
Call Me by Your Name, the Story of the Boy Who Knew Everything and Nothing
i. Elio Perlman, not yet a man, hardly a boy, knows everything. He knows everything about the things that noContinue Reading
The Wiley, Windy Moors: Wuthering Heights (2011)
One of my favourite passages about Wuthering Heights is in Truman Capote’s Breakfast At Tiffany’s when Holly Golightly quotes WutheringContinue Reading
Altruistic Love in Le Notti Bianche
Infatuation is fleeting while true love endures even when the connection has ceased. For the dreamer, this distinction is foreign;Continue Reading
Destructive Love and The Red Shoes
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger explored the theme of love in so many ways in their work. Their A MatterContinue Reading
50 First Dates and the Horrifying Joys of Repetition
Has any horror film been able to immediately conjure up a feeling of dread, discomfort, and pure terror as theContinue Reading
Incomplete Redemption Through Love in Dogfight
For most men, it is often impossible to break away from the traditions and norms enforced by toxic masculinity. ItContinue Reading
The Specter of Memory in Hiroshima Mon Amour
A light in the darkness reveals two lovers tangled in an embrace, their faces concealed as a flurry of ashContinue Reading
The Lovers and the Hilltop in God’s Own Country
Francis Lee‘s directorial debut opens with the dawning of the day over the Yorkshire Dales, as a small house, shrunkenContinue Reading
A Bride Without a Head and a Wolf Without a Foot: The Operatic Drama of Moonstruck
Norman Jewison’s 1987 Academy Award-winning romantic comedy Moonstruck is about many things. Themes of love, family, Italian-Americanism, infidelity, and evenContinue Reading
