Worth Seeing
[See discussion under “My Diary” for July 12, 2012]
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Live Flesh by Pedro Almodovar begins with a scene, set on a lonely night in 1970, in which a baby is born on a bus on the way to the hospital. There is a comic bus driver and a comic older woman helping the baby be born. “If idiots like us didn’t give birth,” she…
An unintentional experiment by the National Endowment for the Arts to show that any time you put war and “art” together you get anti-war propaganda
A movie to be applauded for going against the grain of the usual Hollywood politics but, alas, not a very well-made one
Way back in 1976, Alan Parker had the clever idea of making use of the venerable satirical form of the mock heroic and applying it to gangster movies. This he did by making, in Bugsy Malone, a basic gangster flick in which children were cast in all the roles, from tough-guy killers to hard-eyed hookers….
A farrago of fake blood, movie pastiche and historical nonsense whose rapturous critical reception tells you all you need to know about the state of the culture
