By Andrew Sarris 1/26/04 12:00am

Aussie Odd-Duck Returns Down Under in Japanese Story

Sue Brooks’ Japanese Story , from a screenplay by Alison Tilson, overcomes a whole array of mystifying improbabilities and unlikely affinities to serve as an emotionally compelling vehicle for Toni Collette, the Australian actress who was last this much the center of attention in the international hit Muriel’s Wedding a decade ago. At that time, Read More

By Andrew Sarris 4/30/01 12:00am

Henry James’ Americans Shop for Love and Art Abroad

James Ivory’s The

Golden Bowl , from a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on the novel

by Henry James, and produced by Ismail Merchant, reunites the Merchant-Ivory-Jhabvala

team on a cinematic adaptation of a Henry James classic-reportedly for the last

time, though this will probably not deter the pseudo-brutalists from their

sneering condescension toward Read More