Letters from Iwo Jima
[See “Eastwoodian Aftermaths,” The American Spectator, February, 2007 under “Articles”]
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[See “Eastwoodian Aftermaths,” The American Spectator, February, 2007 under “Articles”]
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Just another po mo fantasy? Just another superhero movie? I’m afraid so.
The Center of the World, directed by Wayne Wang from a script written by Mr Wang and others under the pseudonym of Ellen Benjamin Wong, is a sort of parable—an attempt to be honest about the relations between men and women by portraying a very odd relationship indeed. A computer nerd called Richard (Peter Sarsgaard)…
You’ve got to hand it to Nicole Kassell and Kevin Bacon, for in making a hero of a child molester they haven’t taken the easy way to pleasing audiences
The latest exercise in nihilism and theatre-of-the-absurd from the Coen Brothers
A charming, amusing but also moving account of the making of Peter Pan
A bleak portrait of what remains of love and romance in a world without hope and without a future