Don't Bother
[See “Entry from July 2, 2008” under “My Diary”]
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A movie about the war in Iraq and the men who fight it whose superiority to the other movies about the war is mostly owing to how bad they are
The thing I like about the films of Zhang Yimou, especially the early ones like Red Sorghum, Ju Dou, and Raise the Red Lantern is that he takes such complete advantage of being almost the only filmmaker in the world today who is allowed to wallow in nostalgia for a frankly reactionary past. The reason…
An often funny, less-often satirical satire of the movie business which suffers from the usual weakness of its kind: it’s only kidding
Pavilion of Women is possibly the most perfectly awful movie I have seen this year. It is also a sad indication of the extent to which Hollywood, in seeking to demonstrate liberal good-will towards the People’s Republic of China, will swallow without a murmur propaganda that would be laughed off the stage if it came…
Yet another attempt to bring the classic novel to the silver screen, but without paying much attention to anything in it beyond the plot.
