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[See “Entry from July 4, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from July 4, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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Central Station, a Brazilian film directed by Walter Salles, stars the marvelous Fernanda Montenegro as Dora (real name, Isadora Teixera) a retired schoolteacher who makes her living by writing letters for illiterates who stream through the main train station in Rio de Janeiro. Many of the letters she simply throws away, knowing that the hopeless…
Varsity Blues, directed by Brian (Good Burger) Robbins, is yet another in the seemingly endless procession of dumb Hollywood movies designed to attack the masculine virtues and what used to be thought of as the laudable American quality of the will to win. Like Affliction and The Thin Red Line in recent weeks, it seems to…
Boy! I thought this kind of crude, anti-American propaganda went out with the 1970s. A combination of Michael Moore and Bush-hatred appears to have brought it back
The Sweet Hereafter, written and directed by the Armenian- Canadian director of Exotica, Atom Egoyan, is a movingly updated version of the Pied Piper story only without the rats. This time the Pied Piper is not a businessman or a moralist but mere capricious fate which causes a school bus to run off the road…
Milos Forman’s Man on the Moon is worth seeing for two reasons. One is the remarkable performance of Jim Carrey as the late comic and performance artist (as we should call him today), Andy Kaufman. I confess that I have always numbered myself among the Carrey-skeptics, and cannot remember a single performance of his that…
A portrait of spiritual and emotional emptiness among the academic classes — that may or may not be spiritually and emotionally empty itself