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[See “Eastwoodian Aftermaths,” The American Spectator, February, 2007 under “Articles”]
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Dr. T. and the Women is a typical Robert Altman film in being sprawling and incoherent and full of more or less purposeless and unresolved activity, but also typical in showing flashes of brilliance. Nor does it surprise that Altman is going in for a lot of sentimentalizing about women these days, since it gives…
They don’t come much more charming than Shower, a Chinese film by Zhang Yang with a delicacy and a poignancy in its humor that is almost French. Its theme is a compelling one too, depicting in comic yet poignant form the clash between the new economy in post- Mao, post-Deng China and the old ways…
Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, made in1957 and now restored according to a memo of protest Welles wrote to Universal after they butchered the movie on release, may be the best B-picture ever made. Watching it today, you have to wonder if he knew what he was doing — which was anticipating the postmodern film…
A strange movie from the Antipodes that tries to make a real-life act of mass murder into an object of beauty
Just another po mo fantasy? Just another superhero movie? I’m afraid so.
Hollywood misses yet another chance to say something meaningful to teenagers, preferring as usual to flatter them
