The Life of Pi: To Believe or Not to Believe
I am trying to understand why I came out grumpy rather than enthused from Ang Lee’s spectacular CGI movie, The …
Tag Archives: Movies
Platoon: Americans In Vietnam
With a trip to Vietnam a few months ahead of me I’ve been running old movies and new books through …
Skyfall: Welcome to Scotland — the Latest James Bond Caper
What can I say? I’m not one for action thrillers, have never been to a Conan the Schwarzenegger movie. Runaway trucks on …
To End All Wars: A Movie: A Moral Claim: Mercy Unimaginable
To End All Wars, 2001, by David L Cunningham is a film I might normally recommend for all the typical filmic reasons: …
Heist: Who Stole the American Dream
KPFA, the venerable public radio station in the Bay Area, is offering during its fund-raiser, a copy of the film …
Bogart: I Was Born When You Kissed Me, Died When You Left Me….
Sometimes you come upon a book or a movie you can’t figure out how you had missed earlier. I haven’t seen …
Wooden Crosses: A Movie of Wartime France
Reading the Absolutist last week, a British novel of war in the trenches, WW I, I was reminded of …
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 …