Pursuit of Happyness, The
[See “Entry from August 4, 2010” under “My Diary”]
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A wife’s Mission Impossible to bring hubby back from the war. You don’t suppose it could — possibly — fail do you?
The gentle humor of this coming-of-age story is perhaps just a touch too gentle.
In Les Misérables, directed by Bille August, it is the film itself which turns out to be misérable: thin and poor and wretched and in need of feeding up. The one thing you don’t want to skimp on when you are filming an epic is the epic proportions. August, a fine director of intense and…
The X-Files, directed by Rob Bowman (no relation) and written by the series’s creator, Chris Carter, gives us an example of the perfect post-modern movie, because it presents to us a non-functional conspiracy. That is to say, the conspiracy is detached from its objective, or else the objective is so obscure that it remains unclear…
If I should happen to mention that the music in Mon Homme by Bertrand Blier consists entirely of selections by Barry White and Henryk Gorecki, you may get some idea of what a mess the picture is. At one level, it is, as are many of Blier’s earlier films, a masculine fantasy. The heroine is…
Hollywood’s wars are still with the same enemy they have been fighting for 30 years — the Pentagon. But there are signs of growing pro-Americanism.
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