In this very belated April 2025 edition of Film Filings we have reviews of Soderbergh’s latest, Carl Franklin’s 1992 neo-noir One False Move reviewed by Chris Witty, Nathan Gilmore’s Sunday Reviews, and Sam Stephens investigates the filmic joy of a bad 1948 classic.

Film Filings: Doctor Zhivago; British Film Noir; El Norte; The Madness of the King George

This edition of Film Filings contains reviews of two existential 1965 colonial adventures, a look at eleven Australian classics, one of Chaplin’s last, and meditation of the communal experience of theatre-going.

This edition of Film Filings covers: a Jean Renoir theater experience at Nashville’s Belcourt Theater, my film-viewing habits of the last four months, an excursion in British Folk Horror with Christopher Witty in the U.K., Nathan Gilmore’s reviews of two European classics, and a peek at a cool film that is now in production!

Roger Ebert called the film Bresson’s “finest prayer." Other Bresson films have been more dramatic, more exciting and more viscerally involving—for me, personally, A Man Escaped—but none more spiritually. Balthazar stands apart in its moral and spiritual rigor.