Raiders of the Lost Ark
[See “Entry from August 08, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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An always-watchable, sometimes moving account of nine women coming to terms with loss
Kevin Spacey, sensitivity snob, is in his element in this laughably inept tribute to teen angst.
In the New York Times‘s review of East-West, a Franco-Russian production directed by Régis Wargnier, A.O. Scott noted that, on its release in France last year, the film had been criticized for “its supposed anti-Communism” but that, it seemed to him, “its politics are fairly restrained.” How typical of the New York Times to assume…
Portrait of a Lady by Jane Campion has a very strange beginning. A bunch of contemporary girls, photographed in black and white and grainy stills, as if they were the fading memories, talk about love and men and kissing and “relationships” and marriage over opening credits until one holds out her hand and we see…
A unexpectedly well-made movie about disability with outstanding performances in the principal roles
A notorious and notoriously disgusting bit of cinema which, nevertheless, has a bit more to it than the rest of Lars von Trier’s films