A David Barboza business story in today’s New York Times, about difficulties surrounding the Chinese release of Memoirs of a Geisha, contains the following passage:
Although the film chronicles the world of Japanese geishas, it stars three actresses from the Chinese film world: Ziyi Zhang, who earned a Golden Globe nomination as best actress for Read MoreThe turkey bones go into the trash, the Christmas lights come out of the attic, and on the day after Thanksgiving, the year-end blizzard of big, important, prestigious, expensive Oscar contenders commences. For the next four weeks, expect an avalanche of holiday movies. From what I’ve seen so far, the number of quality films far Read More
The turkey bones go into the trash, the Christmas lights come out of the attic, and on the day after Thanksgiving, the year-end blizzard of big, important, prestigious, expensive Oscar contenders commences. For the next four weeks, expect an avalanche of holiday movies. From what I’ve seen so far, the number of quality films far Read More
Still bruised from a Presidential election that turned a lot of people sour, I feel doubly depressed after suffering through Mike Nichols’ new film Closer. Cold and mordant, it takes cynicism one step further. The premise here is that modern relationships, which are based on lies and deceit, like politics, have hit rock bottom, too. Read More
Zhang Yimou’s The Road
Home , from a screenplay by Bao Shi, based on his novel Remembrance , is quite simply the best and most emotionally engaging
film I have seen this year. It has a seemingly naïve idealism and virtue in a
cinematic cosmos drenched with “neo-noir” cynicism and brutality. In some ways,
