Moody, atmospheric film about pioneering U.S. counterintelligence from the perspective of an operative in the O.S.S. and, after the Second World War, the C.I.A. It is a film about secrets, lies and conflicting loyalties, and the toll these take on the covert agent and his family. Matt Damon’s inability to use his body in a […]
Daily Archives: May 16, 2007
Set to a waltz composed by Méliès, Georges Franju’s film about Georges Méliès is charming, nostalgic, imbued with a sense of the fleeting nature of life. Drawn from documents at La Cinémathèque française and from Méliès’s ninety-year-old widow’s cherished memories, Le Grand Méliès is a silent film with voiceover written by Franju and recited by […]
“All fantasy is political, and all politics are fantasy.” — del Toro Murky allegory conjoining reality and fairy-tale fantasy, set in Spain in 1944. The Spanish Civil War having been lost to the fascists, guerillas still resist. A cartoonish film this, as befits the maker of Blade II (2002) and Hellboy (2004). Visually, it is […]
Dennis Grunes 