One of the world’s most celebrated actresses, Liv Ullmann first tried filmmaking at age 42, when she wrote and directed the segment “Parting” for the composite film Love (1982). Her sixth film, Trolösa (Faithless), confirms what her previous film, Private Confessions (1996), impressed upon me: that Ullmann is a superlative film artist. As was the […]
Daily Archives: June 17, 2007
Below, in alphabetical order, are the titles of films that have been directed wholly or in part by one or more women and about which I have written somewhere on this blogsite. About some of these films I have written full pieces (“film reviews”), 300-word entries (“formal capsule film comments”) or more conversational jottings (“informal […]
Because of Franco, Spaniard Luis Buñuel lived in France at the time of Le fantôme de la liberté. Buñuel’s bold statement of Spanish identity and the imperiled nature of freedom opens the film. Firing squads are occasioned by the 1808 occupation of Toledo, ironically, by the French. (Buñuel is among those killed for defying tyranny.) […]
One of our expectations when a film is narrated, whether omnisciently or by one of its characters, is that the narrator knows enough to be an expert guide for us. From the Ukraine and the Russian Federation, Harvest Time (Vremya zhatvy), the first feature by documentarian and short nondocumentary filmmaker Marina Razbezhkina, delightfully tests this […]
Dennis Grunes 