Can Go Through Skin | Esther Rots, 2009 Just the idea of discovering a stranger in our own homes is a terror that most people cannot bear to imagine. What happens, then, when this fear becomes reality, and we are confronted not only by an uninvited...

As a regular feature here at To Bathe in Filmic Waters we like to offer our readers a weekly serving of beautiful movie-oriented wallpapers. This week, we travel back to the 1930’s with an American comedy classic A Night at the Opera, starring the Marx...

Tetro | Francis Ford Coppola, 2009 The word Tetro, in Francis Ford Coppola’s non-native Italian, means dark, bleak, sombre. Words that are reflected, perhaps somewhat unintentionally, in the director’s new titular character: the long-faced Angelo...

In a Lonely Place | Nicholas Ray, 1950 Before watching Humprey DeForest Bogart in Nicholas Ray’s A Lonely Place, a few years ago now, I had never been wholly blown away by any of his performances. I could see the charm and the way he suited such...

To Die For | Gus Van Sant, 1995 Leading lady Nicole Kidman has had many ups and downs in her career. Perhaps the downs outweigh the ups, but I’m sure the lady herself would quite rightly argue that she has kept two feet firmly in the Hollywood...