Gillian Armstrong, whose sensitive, delightful High Tide (1987) starring glorious Judy Davis is among my favorite Australian films, has done nearly as well with Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Unlike the 1949 version by Mervyn LeRoy, which is treacle, Armstrong’s version bears comparison with George Cukor’s 1933 sentimental classic. No less than Cukor, Armstrong brings […]
Daily Archives: September 25, 2007
Including letters, photographs, other documents, dramatic reconstructions in the form of vignettes, Elisabeth Márton’s Ich hiess Sabina Spielrein comes from Germany, France, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland. Spielrein was a Russian Jew who, as a teenager in 1904, became the patient of Carl Jung before becoming a psychoanalyst herself, in particular, a pioneer in the field […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films from Germany, Scandinavia, Finland & Austria list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Dazzling, brilliant, hilarious, poignant, Lars von Trier’s Danish Idiots is the masterpiece of Dogme 95, the movement Trier helped […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films from Germany, Scandinavia, Finland & Austria list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis “Aimée” and “Jaguar” are code names for two women living in Berlin during the latter part of the war, […]
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Films from Germany, Scandinavia, Finland & Austria list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Brilliantly co-written by Wolfgang Kohlhaase and the director, Volker Schlöndorff’s Legend of Rita meditates afresh on the division and […]
Dennis Grunes 