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Directed by Jim Sheridan, he of those rabble-rousers My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father , In America centers around an Irish immigrant family making a new start in the States after the death of their young son. It’s loosely based on Mr. Sheridan’s own experience-the screenplay was written Read More
From all indications, there is life after Jack Valenti. As president of the Motion Picture Association of America (whatever that is), his moronic ban on VHS and DVD “screeners” for critics this voting season will, I predict, backfire on the industry as a whole, resulting in disaster for a number of big releases from Hollywood Read More
Greetings from Munich, the Black Hole of the Millennium. The perfect place to celebrate, to consummate, the dead end of a low, dark, dishonest century; the place that gave birth to the century’s (the millennium’s?) darkest, most destructive phenomenon, the city that nurtured the Nazi movement. Munich was Adolf Hitler’s adoptive hometown, home of the Read More
There is a moment in Jim Sheridan’s incandescent The Boxer that reveals, in a single, perfectly timed edit, what a movie can do. It is a tiny moment, but a moment of truth nevertheless, and it is worth all the goggle-eyed reaction shots, all the cartoon gestures and music-soaked shtick of a Spielberg. It comes Read More
