After her superbly understated performance as Harper Lee in the undervalued film Infamous, I developed a whole new respect for Sandra Bullock. She should have been honored with an Academy Award nomination, along with the unforgettably brilliant Toby Jones, who was light years ahead of Philip Seymour Hoffman in the role of Truman Capote. (They Read More
Josée Dayan’s Cet Amour-Là is not the kind of film I would recommend to anyone who found The Hours too depressing. Cet Amour-Là , from Ms. Dayan’s own screenplay, with dialogue in collaboration with Yann Andréa, Maren Sell and Gilles Taurand, based on the novel by Mr. Andréa, recounts the passionate and scandalous love affair Read More
In war, the battles always overshadow the people who fight them. Maybe this is the reason why there have been so few memorable films about the American Civil War and absolutely none about the American Revolution. War films have a way of turning into history lessons, while audiences balk at the idea of paying money Read More
The hills are alive with the sounds of … new CD’s! Broadway is dead, and except for the newly mastered, digitally enhanced, spanking fresh re-release print of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterpiece Rear Window , the movies that are opening now should never have opened at all. Music is the only thing that is getting me Read More
Coal Miner’s Son Dreams of NASA
Here’s something unique to the point of bewilderment in the 1990′s: a family movie about the rarest of subjects-goal-oriented teenagers who don’t rape, pillage, plunder, strip, or wear condoms on their ears. The high school kids in October Sky are more focused on building their own spacecraft than stringing Read More
