‘The French Dispatch’ Review: From France to Kansas, We Salute the Words on a Page
★★★ Manifestos, Frescos, and Stone-Black Cappuccinos If you take a stroll down the extensive roads of Wes Anderson’s work, one...
Ethan Essner
Hello, my name is Ethan Essner. I am currently a senior at High School West and the Managing Editor as well as the founder and head writer of CinePhiler's Corner of the Hills West Roundup. Additionally, I work in tandem with the chief-editor to fine-tune and edit the print and assist in developing website articles on topics such as movies, music, pop culture and so much more! I hope you take a look around and explore what the Roundup has to offer, enjoy!
‘Céline and Julie Go Boating’ Review: Candy Can Only Fuel the Memory of Few
★★★★★ ABRACADABRA: Welcome to the Next Morning Jacques Rivette placed his rather prodigious and lavish hands on the scope of...
‘L’Avventura’ Review: When Love Meets Deceit
★★★★★ Letters from the Ash Flower Preceding the denouement of Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1960 exhibition of human temperament and volatility —...
The X-Factor of Georges Méliès
The waning notion in which film of the contemporary age sulks in the brine of disparate — unicellular manifestation points...
Dual, Cited Analyses of Cinema: Éric Rohmer’s “The Bakery Girl of Monceau” & “Suzanne’s Career”
Éric Rohmer is a very personally motivating director for me and his creatively choreographed plots are composed with some of...
‘Annette’ Review: Having Sympathy for the Abyss
★★★★★ Waltzing to the Heart of Musicality Who would’ve assumed that a film blending a dramatized narrative with a musical...
‘8½’ Review: It’s All About Film (In Film)
★★★★★ Lights. Camera. Imagine. Federico Fellini and his baroque interpretation of cinema’s source material lands within the realm of more...
‘The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant’ Review: An Eccentric Rendering of a Tormented Romance
★★★★★ The crude dynamics of humanistic narcissism The transitional alterations of a screenplay "written for the stage" to one "written...
