Invasion of the Body Snatchers
[See discussion under “My diary” entry for June 28, 2012]
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Fierce Creatures by Robert Young and Fred Schepisi brings together again the four principal actors of A Fish Called Wanda, though not in their characters from that film. This is quite a different story—about an Antipodean tycoon presumably based on Rupert Murdoch called Rod McCain (Kevin Kline) who takes over a small zoo in England…
Slick, good-looking and utterly empty, Steven Zaillian’s vision of fascism come to America is laughable as politics and incoherent as cinema
A coming of age story set in an immigrant subculture that’s worth seeing mainly for the acting
An exciting and visually impressive cinematic excursion into the ballet which ultimately fails to break free of the shackles of irony.
A touching documentary portrait of a not-quite tragic fall from what passes these days for greatness
The portrait of a real-life French con-man who doesn’t succeed in being as charming as the film wants to portray him as being