On March 29, Jodie Foster opens in a film about a recently divorced mother who picks up and leaves tranquil Greenwich, Conn., with her daughter for a state-of-the-art townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. On their very first night under their new roof, three violent intruders break in, and mother and daughter scramble into a Read More
Sam Mendes’ American Beauty , from a screenplay by Alan Ball, takes the American suburban, middle-class midlife crisis to a spectacular new dimension of dysfunction-sexual, psychological, professional and sociological. As the latest mainstream movie symptom of our premillennial malaise, American Beauty is so brilliantly acted, written, directed and visualized that for all its despondency and Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
