War Horse: War Horror on the Stage
I have to admit I was knocked out by the staging of War Horse at San Francisco’s Curran Theater. I …
Category Archives: Movies
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry — An Artist, An Organizer, A Movie
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is a documentary film that’s a three-fer. It will be interesting and instructive, even moving, to …
Outcasts Cast Their Lots Together
So I have no idea why the excellent French movie, titled Intouchables in French, is being marketed as “Intouchables” in …
The French Resistance, A Priest and Dammed Desire
Updated at * below… Jean-Pierre Melville, whose well-regarded noir gangster film are on every Francophile or film-buff’s list of must-sees, …
Beasts of the Southern Wild: A Report
Beasts of the Southern Wild has been wildly praised in many parts. We went to see it despite some trepidation …
Silvio Soldini on That Greener Grass
Silvio Soldini won’t be an Italian film maker who immediately springs to mind though thought be applied. With a thirty …
The Silence of the Sea — A Film of Noncooperation with Evil
The Silence of the Sea, a 1949 film by Jean Pierre Melville, may be one of the strangest war movies …
A Touch of Spice – Istanbul Greeks, a Film
Food and the lessons it holds for us, quite apart from sheer survival, are a minor genre in modern movies. …
Egg-Milk-Honey — A Turkish Film Trilogy
Trilogies are rare birds in the species we call movies. When they exist at all they seem to come from …
Burma –Resistance In Raw Footage
Making a movie, anywhere, anytime, is a tough enterprise. Doing it the middle of a civil insurrection, in which the …
Downfall: The Last 10 Days of Hitler’s Reich
I remember being interested in seeing Downfall, the 2004 movie by Oliver Hirschbiegel when it came to theaters, and somehow getting the idea …
Sunflower: Italians on the Russian Front — a Movie
Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, in their prime would be enough to attract any warm-blooded movie goer, much less an Italo-cinephile. …