The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Asian Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis In stark black and white (until the blood-red finish), Wen Jiang’s Guizi lai le (The Nips Are Here) may be the most staggering vision […]
Daily Archives: October 18, 2007
The following is one of the entries from my 100 Greatest Asian Films list, which I invite you to visit on this site if you haven’t already done so. — Dennis Samira Makhmalbaf’s stunning Takhté siah, made when she was 19, follows her achingly humane debut, The Apple (Sib, 1997), in which a real-life situation […]
Sophisticated erotic cinema’s premier artist may be Hong Kong’s Wong Kar-Wai, whose Cheun gwong tsa sit (Happy Together, 1997) is the most brilliant film ever about a volatile gay relationship, and whose Fa yeung nin wa, about sublimated desire in the relationship between a man and a woman, is even better. Wong spins an aching, […]
Clinging to life in a society in transition, feudal values in late nineteenth-century Tokyo corrupt the relationship between a father and a daughter and this daughter and Suezo, the man whose mistress she becomes, a married moneylender pretending to be an unmarried merchant. Otama’s motive is her wish to provide for her ailing father, whose […]
Richard Gere is brilliant and very moving as Clifford Irving, who in the 1970s, during Richard Nixon’s presidency, faked an autobiographical collaboration with reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes. The Hoax is by far Lasse Hallström’s most engrossing and entertaining film. Irving was treading on water. On both ends of what he did his limited choices of […]
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