Must See
[See “Entry from July 13, 2011” under “My Diary”]
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Better wear some flowers in your hair
The Designated Mourner, written by Wallace Shawn and directed by David Hare, is chiefly remarkable for the fact that it shows Mike Nichols can act. Or at least overact. It’s hard to tell if it is Mr Shawn’s overheated writing, Mr Hare’s spare, intense directing or Mr Nichols’s own natural hamminess, but the overall effect…
Once again the Coen brothers show themselves to be master craftsmen of the cinema without anything much to say
Pi, directed by Darren Aronofsky, is another chapter in the popular culture’s love affair with flashy intelligence—or at least the image of it. A gritty, black-and-white, low-budget version of Good Will Hunting, it does no better a job, however, at making such intelligence look real. For in addition to the usual mathematical parlor-tricks, this particular…
A dark, European take on the classic Hollywood version of the myth of the American frontier, but set in contemporary Denmark
