Affair to Remember, An
[See “Entry from July 16, 2008” under “My Diary”]
[See “Entry from July 16, 2008” under “My Diary”]
A relatively fair and dispassionate look at anti-abortion activists by a couple of young film-makers on the other side which, however, doesn’t tell us much that we don’t already know
Wes Anderson’s new film lives up to the high standard he set for himself in Rushmore (1998) and Bottle Rocket (1996). A must-see rating.
Here I make my declaration of faith: the single most important element in film is plot. This is because film is an inescapably realistic medium. You can’t make it look not like life, though, God knows, an awful lot of people have tried. But it is life in motion, which means that it cries out…
Nature documentaries have never been so gorgeous — but Jacques Perrin’s film would have been no less so with some added documentary-style touches
Neil LaBute’s attempt at a real romance goes — perhaps unsurprisingly — horribly wrong.
When the winner of the Big Game lottery jackpot of $197 million didn’t immediately come forward to claim his prize recently, newspapers were reduced to running an AP photo of the shop in Boston where the winning ticket was sold. In the photo a young man is shown from behind as he affixes a sign…