Superficial though (for some of its protracted length) entertaining juvenile melodrama about the Jesse James Hollywood mess in California that led to the kidnapping and murder of the 15-year-old brother of a punk who owed Hollywood, a drug dealer, money. For legal reasons, all the names have been changed, with Hollywood, for example, now being […]
Daily Archives: May 12, 2007
Unknown Soldier was written and directed by Ferenc Tóth. It is about an 18-year-old boy who, once evicted from their Harlem apartment after his father’s death, ends up on the streets. Tóth himself had lived in Harlem and wanted to make a film about those he knew there. It begins in “set-up” mode. A party […]
The actual title of the film called in the States Farewell, Home Sweet Home is Adieu, plancher des vaches!, whose English translation would be Farewell, Cow Floor! Nineteenth-century sailors thus commented on the unpleasantness of accommodations they were leaving and expressed hope that their next accommodations would be better—which they hardly ever were. From France, […]
Dennis Grunes 