Remember the Night (1940)
[See discussion under “My Diary” for June 11, 2014
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A lamentably bad Christmas movie with no more understanding of the traditions and beliefs it exploits than the ninnies it portrays
La Vita è Bella or Life is Beautiful was directed and co-written by Roberto Benigni, who stars as Guido Orefice, a Jewish waiter in Arezzo before the war. He woos and wins his wife, Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), whom he calls la principessa — the princess — in memorably comic and romantic style and manages to…
A pack of left-wingers, familiar and unfamiliar, gets together to explain why the world needs to be protected from jobs and prosperity
A brilliant and heart-breaking Iranian film that is also a superbly plotted detective story
In Ride With the Devil, the great Taiwanese director Ang Lee shows once again that he has a kind of genius for the old Hollywood trick of adapting second-rank fiction to the big screen. This is not meant to be a put-down. First rank fiction very rarely makes a first rank movie. What to my…
The English version of the title of Amores Perros, written by Guillermo Arriaga and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, is given by its distributors as Love is a Bitch, though this seems to be something of an unhappy compromise, suggesting one of those assembly-line romantic comedies cranked out by Hollywood to exploit the fame of…
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