Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death)
[See “Entry from July 13, 2011” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from July 13, 2011” under “My Diary”]
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A Norwegian film whose amusing qualities are the spoonful of sugar that helps the message-medicine go down
Portrait of a Lady by Jane Campion has a very strange beginning. A bunch of contemporary girls, photographed in black and white and grainy stills, as if they were the fading memories, talk about love and men and kissing and “relationships” and marriage over opening credits until one holds out her hand and we see…
Not of this World by Giuseppe Piccioni is, like Erick Zonca’s The Dreamlife of Angels, a life-changing movie, a movie that I would have thought it impossible to watch unmoved, impossible to forget once seen, but for the fact that the New York Times‘s critic called it a “loamy soap opera” and “a melodrama of…
Yet another nostalgic invocation of the hippie dream, though at least this one doesn’t pretend to be sexually innocent
A funny but also depressing take on the lives of women of the Upper West Side
An inspiring account of a coach’s dedication and a high school football team’s success which rather underplays its chief insight into the importance of character
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