Pawel
Pawlikowski’s My Summer of Love, from a screenplay by Mr. Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne, based on the novel by Helen Cross, turns out to be a triumph of unexpectedness in its slimmed-down story of two teenage girls, one middle-to-lower-class, and the other upper-class. The two equally lonely girls drift into a relationship that Read More
Pawel Pawlikowski’s My Summer of Love, from a screenplay by Mr. Pawlikowski and Michael Wynne, based on the novel by Helen Cross, turns out to be a triumph of unexpectedness in its slimmed-down story of two teenage girls, one middle-to-lower-class, and the other upper-class. The two equally lonely girls drift into a relationship that is Read More
Wednesday, Sept. 8
When rumors started seeping out that CBS’s Mel Karmazin and Viacom’s Sumner Redstone were discussing a merger on the eve of Labor Day weekend, other players in the media world were awestruck.
“It makes perfect sense,” said the chief executive of another major media conglomerate days before the merger was announced. Read More
Peter Bogdanovich’s Movie of the Week
In 1970–a decade before the video cassette age–Orson Welles had rented a house for a year in Beverly Hills, and one evening I brought over a portable 16-millimeter projector so that we could run a print I’d borrowed of James Cagney at his annihilating best in Raoul Walsh’s Read More
