Sergeant York
[See “Entry from June 20, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from June 20, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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Putting together the pieces of the puzzle is the only pleasure to be had from this movie, but it is pleasure enough for some people.
The Perfect Storm, though exciting as spectacle is disappointing as drama. Its director, Wolfgang Petersen here favors rather the style of Air Force One, his best known film, than Das Boot, his second best-known. Perhaps it was only the relatively small budget of the latter film which forced him to pay the attention he does…
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Hollywood producers have always been a prey to the delusion that what makes great novels great are their stories, or their characters or their “ideas”—things whose transfer to celluloid is fairly straightforward. But as Stéphane Mallarmé once said of poems, novels are not made of ideas but of words. Without Dickens’s words, Great Expectations is…
Firestorm is the kind of picture which it would be nice to be able to encourage with a sympathetic review. It is the story of heroic men—in this case the legendary “smoke jumpers” who parachute into forest fires to help put them out—fighting against both nature and bad guys and prevailing against both. Nor is…
Yet another nostalgic invocation of the hippie dream, though at least this one doesn’t pretend to be sexually innocent
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