The Magdalene Sisters , denounced by the papal hierarchy and held up for release by threats to Miramax and organized Catholic protest groups fueled by the most diabolical religious hysteria since the auto-da-fé, finally hits the screen this week with all of the accompanying controversy a great film deserves. A grand-prize winner at last year’s Read More
François Ozon’s Swimming Pool , from a screenplay by Mr. Ozon, written in collaboration with the French novelist Emmanuèle Bernheim, takes you on a sensual, nudity-filled ride before pulling the rug out from under you with a succession of logical inconsistencies. This is to say that Swimming Pool does not progress as a linear narrative Read More
François Ozon’s Criminal Lovers , from Mr. Ozon’s screenplay, is an ideologically gay movie strenuously disguising itself as a traditional young-lovers-on-the-run adventure, a genre descended from Fritz Lang’s You Only Live Once (1937), Nicholas Ray’s They Live By Night (1949), Joseph H. Lewis’ Gun Crazy (1950), Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Terrence Malick’s Badlands Read More
Affordable Housing or Lack Thereof
