Reviews
Week end (1967)
Audacious fantasia about mindless consumerism; it will shake you up.
Two people, out to land cash by any means necessary, make a journey to murder an old woman. Nothing can stop them in their obsession, not traffic jams (one of the most amazing tracking shots of all time), not accidents, not even the occasional encounter with incarnated characters out of Victor Hugo. They finally off the harridan only to be captured by a cannabalistic guerrilla troop that murders the man and converts the woman. The acting is often wooden, but Godard was still young and who could keep up with the man? Scenes of outrage and hilarity (more than once I found myself saying "And now for something completely different . . .") intercut with powerful emotion and lyric beauty (even in subtitles, the "Greeting to the Ancient Ocean" scene will raise goosebumps.
The Beast Within: A Gabriel Knight Mystery (1995)
The best FMV of all!
Not many Full Motion Video games being put out now, but The
Beast Within is the best of them all, hands down. The second in
the Gabriel Knight series, Gabe is now in Germany trying to
solve murders involving a werewolf. But what does a lost opera
by Wagner have to do with it? Incredible storylines, fine acting
by all involved, and wonderfully rendered backgrounds.
Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (1993)
It's old, but head and shoulders above most games today.
They don't make games like this everyday. The original Gabriel
Knight mystery showed the world how to make a computer game. You
control Gabriel Knight, a budding true-crime novelist in New
Orleans. He's caught up in the investigation of the recent
Voodoo Murders with the help of his assistant, Grace Nakimura,
and his buddy on the police force, Mosely. This game is the
complete opposite of a shoot-em-up; you must figure out the
mystery and try to keep Gabe's sanity. Gather the clues, try to
save the girl, and discover Gabe's hidden past.