In Which We Serve (1942)

Buddy by Caroline Thompson is the (more or less) true story of Gertrude Lintz (Rene Russo), a Brooklyn socialite of the 1920s and 30s and author of Animals Are My Hobby, who raised chimpanzees as if they were children with some interesting results and later tried the same trick with a gorilla (the eponymous Buddy,…

A movie that is a very good example of its kind, even though its kind is not to this critic’s taste

One of the classics from the great days of the earnest “intellectual spectaculars” of the 1960s comes to the Film Forum

Cosi by Mark Joffe is the perfect Australian movie, containing as it does opera, insanity, coming of age and that most intricate of metaphysical questions: how to resolve the conflict between one’s girl and one’s mates. Based on a play by Louis Nowra, it stars Ben Mendelsohn as Lewis, a young college dropout who doesn’t…

A bit of determined uplift that would be more effective if it didn’t try so hard

A rather simple but still powerful movie about educational reform which ought to be less controversial than it is