Ousmane Sembène is dead at 84. In tribute to the great “father of African cinema,” I have brought together here all my pieces about the Senegalese film artist from elsewhere on my blogsite. They are arranged in the films’ chronological order. A reminder: one of these films, Moolaadé, appears on my list of the 100 […]
Daily Archives: June 11, 2007
From Australia comes this film about Aborigines, their history, their culture. It is set thousands of years prior to Western settlement two hundred years ago—in fact, the narrator, an eternal voiceover, jokes as he introduces the story that we “see,” “Once upon a time, in a land far, far away,” before he laughingly explains that […]
The fifth film in a prolific run cut short by an early (and courted) death, Why Does Herr R. Run Amok? (Warum läuft Herr R. Amok?) does not deserve the dismissal that its brilliant young writer-director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, would later apply to it. He and his co-scenarist, co-director and co-editor, Michael Fengler, have wrought […]
Dennis Grunes 