Sands of Iwo Jima, The
[See “Entry from June 27, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from June 27, 2007” under “My Diary”]
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Don Diego (Anthony Hopkins), the aristocratic settler in Spanish California who dons The Mask of Zorro to fight against his aristocratic brethren and for the people as “Zorro,” the fox, is a man of apparently no politics, though he repeatedly risks his life, no internal conflicts, in spite of being “a traitor to your country…
Mike Myers has done it again. Will anyone outside of academe henceforth be able to look at the “Swinging Sixties” with a straight face?
Zero Effect is a wacky detective yarn written and directed by Jake Kasdan and starring Bill Pullman as Daryl Zero, an updated, Americanized version of Sherlock Holmes. Zero is a reclusive private detective who gives his cases names like “The Case of the Mismatched Shoelaces” and commands spectacularly high fees for his “highly intuitive” powers…
OK, so old people can be as sexually licentious as young and attractive ones. Does this mean that we want to watch them doing it?
An unforgettable docu-drama about a climbing accident in the Andes nearly 20 years ago which is still being talked about among mountaineers
When the Cat’s Away (not a very adequate translation of the French Chacun Cherche Son Chat or “Everyone’s looking for his cat”), by Cédric Klapisch, is a charmingly old-fashioned kind of film, in spite of its depiction of very contemporary social realities. It offers a marvelously undimmed romanticism about Paris, and about the glamour of…
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