Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men, from a screenplay by Mr. Cuarón, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, is based on the futuristic sci-fi novel by P.D. James. If I had seen it before I compiled my “Movies Other People Liked and I Didn’t” list for 2006, it would have been a Read More
A David Barboza business story in today’s New York Times, about difficulties surrounding the Chinese release of Memoirs of a Geisha, contains the following passage:
Although the film chronicles the world of Japanese geishas, it stars three actresses from the Chinese film world: Ziyi Zhang, who earned a Golden Globe nomination as best actress for Read More
The turkey bones go into the trash, the Christmas lights come out of the attic, and on the day after Thanksgiving, the year-end blizzard of big, important, prestigious, expensive Oscar contenders commences. For the next four weeks, expect an avalanche of holiday movies. From what I’ve seen so far, the number of quality films far Read More
