While perhaps inevitably something of a letdown following the raptures of her Tango Lesson (1997), Sally Potter’s The Man Who Cried is still a marvelously sensitive depiction of tumultuous events in Europe towards the close of the 1930s. Actually, the film opens (after a fierce flashforward involving ocean, fire, and a girl trying to keep […]
Daily Archives: February 18, 2007
The occasion for Mexico’s En el hoyo (In the Pit) is the construction of the second deck of the Periférico Freeway in Mexico City, 2003-2005. Largely comprising interviews of construction workers, from Mexico’s struggling underclass, involved in the project, Juan Carlos Rulfo’s magnificent film won the top prize in any category at the Buenos Aires […]
Dennis Grunes 