By Andrew Sarris 4/03/00 12:00am

Families Endure Stalinism While the West Keeps Quiet

The Academy Award-nominated East-West , directed by Régis Wargnier from a screenplay by Mr. Wargnier, Serguei Bodrov, Roustam Ibraguimbekov and Louis Gardel, reminds me of the rueful aphorism about the difference between Hitler and Stalin being that Hitler told the truth about what he was doing, and no one believed him, whereas Stalin lied about Read More

By Andrew Sarris 2/01/99 12:00am

The Man Who Made Kids Has Redeemed Himself

Larry Clark’s Another Day in Paradise , from a screenplay by Christopher Landon and Stephen Chin, based on the novel by Eddie Little, marks a surprising advance over Mr. Clark’s wildly overrated, hideously attitudinal and defiantly disgusting maiden film, Kids (1995), in character development and emotional articulation. This time around, he’s used some talented actors, Read More