My Man Godfrey
[See “Entry from June 23, 2010” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from June 23, 2010” under “My Diary”]
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Another political documentary conceived of not as investigation but as entertainment for those who already know all they care to know of its subject — except that it forgets to entertain
Is it possible for a man to have friends without regressing to boyhood? Not according to this unfunny comedy
A bittersweet but well-executed comedy to which there is much more than may at first appear.
In the Realm of the Senses is a Japanese film made twenty years ago by Nagisa Oshima. At the time it was considered shocking even by the relaxed standards of the day and it was seized by U.S. Customs Agents. What innocent times they seem! Nowadays we aren’t so much more depraved than people were…
The Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan, have always had something of the smart aleck about them. Even such wonderful movies as Miller’s Crossing and Fargo teetered on the brink of becoming mere smart aleck movies like Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy. What saved them in their better movies was a sense of moral seriousness…
Groundhog Day meets The Bourne Ultimatum — but what is the point?