Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, inspired by co-scenarist Arthur C. Clarke’s story “The Sentinel,” has always been problematic. Psychoanalytic literary critic Norman N. Holland once said it is both very good and very bad, and America’s premier film critic, Andrew Sarris, followed up his original damning assessment of Kubrick’s nonsense with another, far more […]
Daily Archives: June 4, 2007
From Uruguay comes Whisky. The title refers to the word that people say there, like our cheese, to generate a smile when one is being photographed. The film is about Jewish brothers with an emotional distance between them, each with his own factory (one in Brazil, one in Uruguay), one considerably more successful than the […]
Among the recent spate of Israeli films (made prior to the Second Intifada beginning September 2000) that attempt to “humanize” Palestinians, The Inner Tour, co-produced by Israelis and Palestinians, may be the most melancholy and moving. Ra’anan Alexandrowicz’s documentary revolves around a situation that the Palestinian uprising has made no longer possible: a three-day journey […]
Dennis Grunes 