art house film Archives - Steven Benedict

183. Room

In adapting Emma Donoghue’s award-winning novel, Lenny Abrahamson extends a cinematic tradition established by French master, Robert Bresson.

To call David Lynch a surrealist is to misses the point. This masterpiece proved he is one of cinema’s great humanists.

He has made only 3 feature films, but with each of them being a masterpieces Steve McQueen is now one of the world’s leading filmmakers.

Released in 1955, The Night of the Hunter was greeted with scorn by critics and ignored by audiences. How wrong they were.