What I have done here is chronologically arrange entries of mine about Welles films culled from two lists that you will find elsewhere on this site, the 100 Greatest Films and the 100 Greatest English-Language Films. In addition, I have indicated full pieces about Welles films, as well as informal capsule comments, that you will […]
Daily Archives: April 24, 2007
We Vardanians adore Happiness. What a witheringly ironical opening, with the golden flowers in closeup wobbling in the breeze, unsettling the frames, the Mozart on the soundtrack seeming to mock the images, the perfectly happy family, the man and woman moving at a slow pace to accommodate their two toddlers in between, all of them […]
What I have done here is chronologically arrange 300-word entries about films by Eisenstein that appear on two lists that you will find elsewhere on this site, the 100 Greatest Films and the 100 Greatest Films from the Soviet Union, Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Let me add that “Battleship Potemkin” is currently my second […]