Apartment, The
[See “Entry from July 23, 2008” under “My Diary”]
[See “Entry from July 23, 2008” under “My Diary”]
OK, so old people can be as sexually licentious as young and attractive ones. Does this mean that we want to watch them doing it?
The problem with L’Homme du Train (The Man on the Train), directed by Patrice Leconte (La Veuve de Saint-Pierre, La Fille Sur La Pont, Ridicule) and written by Claude Klotz (Le Mari de la Coiffeuse) is its very French notion of redemption through crime. Like last year’s Sur Mes LPvres (Read My Lips) by Jacques…
A politically partisan re-telling of a familiar story which is intended to place its subject in the best possible light
An interesting French film that plays around with movie-stereotypes of the police, though it could do more to subvert them
Let’s Talk About Sex is written and directed by Troy Beyer, who also stars as Jazz, an agony aunt columnist in Miami who wants to be the host of a TV talk show called “Girl Talk.” Her getting the gig depends on her putting together a demo tape in only a few days, which starts…
Jackie Brown confirms two things we have always really known about Quentin Tarantino at his best (at his worst he is just unspeakable). One is that he is the most compulsively watchable filmmaker now working in America. He knows how to keep an audience riveted to the screen, and he knows how to tell a…