Good Cop, Bad Cop

Psychologically impacted by world crisis, I am, unlike the American flag, still at half-mast. Too riveted by current events to venture far from my television set, I haven’t had the heart, energy or interest to write about show business. I know my job is to tell you about movies and plays and cabaret shows, but Read More

A Closeted Hansel and a Murderous Gretel

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