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[See “Eastwoodian Aftermaths,” The American Spectator, February, 2007 under “Articles”]
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Simon Birch, written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson with a “suggested by” credit to John Irving for A Prayer for Owen Meany, is one of those self-consciously uplifting films, like The Spitfire Grill or Fried Green Tomatoes, that leave one feeling manipulated and disgusted. Like them it has been conceived and designed and put…
East is East by Damien O’Donnell, from a script by Ayub Khan-Din, is worth seeing because of its wry look at the culture clash between East and West in a working class area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the early 1970s, and for the terrific performance of Om Puri in the role of the Pakistani…
Another movie celebration of media narcissism, and an evocation of pathos for the long recessional of the newspaper business’s terminal decline
A visual delight which there are numerous but often mutually contradictory reasons for feeling guilty about enjoying
A Belgian film about a hit man with Alzheimer’s disease promises a bit more than it is able to deliver
The Winners, a documentary by Paul Cohen, tells the story of four former winners and one third place finisher in the Queen Elizabeth Competition for violinists and pianists in Belgium and what has happened to them since. It is an absorbing but disorganized film that doesn’t quite know what it wants to say, though it…
