It Happened One Night
[See “Entry from June 18, 2008” under “My Diary”]
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[See “Entry from June 18, 2008” under “My Diary”]
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A movie to be applauded for going against the grain of the usual Hollywood politics but, alas, not a very well-made one
Part romance, part lurid soap opera and part picture postcard of old Japan, this film slips just enough of the real thing past its inevitable Hollywoodification to make it worth seeing
Yet another pretend “documentary” that’s really just anti-war propaganda
An often funny revenge fantasy for wronged women which either doesn’t know about or can’t allow itself to show its more serious side
42 Up, the sixth in Michael Apted’s fascinating series of documentaries about a group of English schoolchildren first introduced to us at the age of seven in 1964, is the best yet. In a way this was predictable, since at 42 the sense of youthful expectation in which anything still seems possible has at last…