The world press has declared David Lynch’s extravagant, gorgeous Inland Empire a masterpiece, and Lynch has won prizes for it at Venice and, at home, from the National Society of Film Critics. I love Lynch, especially The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, The Straight Story and—I named it one of the […]
Daily Archives: September 20, 2007
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. This is a different list than the 100 Greatest English-Language Films one, although a few entries overlap. — Dennis The title Comradery reflects the politics of its […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Pabst’s The Threepenny Opera portrays an impoverished Soho one hundred years after John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera (1728)—satirizing elitist high opera, the people’s ballad opera that […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis When Jacques Prévert wrote for Marcel Carné (Le jour se lève, 1939; Children of Paradise, 1945), the result would be fatalistic; but his one collaboration […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Before the world changed its mind about The Rules of the Game (1939), La grande illusion was considered Renoir’s masterpiece. It is certainly the greatest […]
Dennis Grunes 