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 former enfant terrible of the nouvelle vague, […]
Daily Archives: September 23, 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 Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, […]
Labored fantasy and humorless whimsy, Portrait of Jennie is about a “mistake in time” that allows for the romance in Depression-era New York City between a starving painter, Eben Adams, and a strange girl who, Adams later learns, died some time ago. Based on a novel by Robert Nathan, the film benefits from William Dieterle’s […]
Marcel Marceau, the twentieth century’s most celebrated mime (well, apart from Baptiste Debureau in Marcel Carné’s Children of Paradise), is dead. Marceau was 84. This mime’s astounding popularity always defeated my comprehension. Whenever I watched Marceau perform on TV I couldn’t make heads or tails out of what he was doing, what he meant to […]
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb is a British black comedy taken from a straight novel, Red Alert, by Welsh-born Peter George, who co-authored the script and shortly afterwards committed suicide. His co-scenarists: Terry Southern, from Texas, and former fashion photographer Stanley Kubrick, from the Bronx, who had […]
Dennis Grunes 