Deleting one of the former entries to make room for it, here is an entry I have newly added to my 100 Greatest Films from Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean list: They take our money; they take our minds, too. Mali’s Abderrahmane Sissako’s masterpiece begins at dawn; the village of Bamako is waking up. […]
Daily Archives: October 1, 2007
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 The complex German personality, with its susceptibility to authoritarianism and idolatry, and its courting of humiliation and defeat: this […]
François Truffaut once remarked even pacifist war films turn out pro-war because the battle scenes invariably prove the most exciting, undoing the intended message. He may have had in mind Lewis Milestone’s stilted, poetical All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), which comes to life only in its spectacular tracking shots of combat, with rows […]
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 Perhaps the most celebrated pacifist film of all time, Niemandsland doesn’t quite exist, Adolf Hitler having destroyed it. A […]
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 Giving birth to the police procedural, Fritz Lang’s M, though talky, retains a grim fascination. It is about two […]
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