Don't Bother
[See “Our Childless Dystopia” in The New Atlantis of Winter, 2007, under “Articles”]
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A delightful return to the — amusingly tweaked — conventions of silent film for an unexpectedly moving if familiar love story
“She was too good for this life. . .” wrote Philip Larkin of the graffiti-covered bathing beauty on the advertising poster for “Sunny Prestatyn” and his ironic pity came to mind as I watched Gillian Anderson piling up the pathos as Lily Bart in Terence Davies’s screen adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel, The House of…
Beautiful people having funny adventures on the wrong side of the law and getting rich. You’ve just got to love them — don’t you?
The People vs. Larry Flynt is one of Hollywood’s more typical propaganda films—which is to say one which makes it too easy on itself. Unlike, say, Dead Man Walking, which was a very untypical propaganda film, it does not play straight with us. It stacks the deck in favor of its hero, Larry Flynt (Woody…
The gentle humor of this coming-of-age story is perhaps just a touch too gentle.
